Gaku Furukawa
Software Engineer at Freelance
Greater Tokyo Area Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolGaku Furukawa is a seasoned Japanese software engineer with 11 years of experience designing and delivering large-scale web, mobile, and game services across Japan and Southeast Asia. He has led teams as a tech lead and CTO, architecting cloud-based realtime platforms—including live-streaming systems using RTMP/HLS—and shipping native Android and iOS applications. His background spans B2C mobile, social gaming, and realtime communication (WebRTC), combining hands-on server-side engineering with product-focused leadership. As a freelancer since 2019 he partners with companies to solve complex backend and realtime challenges while remaining based between Thailand and the Greater Tokyo Area. Known for stepping into both technical and managerial roles, he brings a practical blend of startup founding experience and enterprise-scale operational know-how. An uncommon strength is his cross-domain fluency: from low-latency streaming protocols to large event-driven game services, enabling end-to-end ownership of realtime consumer platforms.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computer science, Computer science at Tamagawa University
Github Skills (149)
scroller10
firebase9
google-api9
client-library8
acl8
property-list8
plist8
listview8
flutter8
js-client8
adapter8
cas8
google8
phaser7
rest-api7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
dirablue/plist_parser
Feb 2022 - May 2022
A Plist parser for Flutter supports XML and binary Apple Property list (plist) formats. Give thanks (GitHub ★)
Contributions:8 releases, 1 review, 17 commits in 2 months
plistxmldartformatsparser
dirablue/test_01
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:19 PRs, 20 pushes, 4 branches in 1 day
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