Summary
Gen Tamura is a CEO and solo software engineer with 11 years of experience building modern web applications and shipping multiple SaaS products from idea to production. He specializes in Next.js and TypeScript-driven frontends, designing type-safe data flows with Drizzle ORM, Supabase, and automated validation to maintain parity between compile-time types and runtime checks. As the founder of GEN Ltd., he currently develops Listee, an AI-first productivity SaaS that supports both LLM chat and Alexa voice interactions and is being prepared for open source release. Gen frequently upgrades and modernizes legacy stacks to cutting-edge Next.js features (App Router, Server Actions, Edge Runtime) and emphasizes performance and developer experience via tools like Bun, Biome, and Vercel/GitHub Actions. His background spans leading single-developer product teams for real-estate and mortgage platforms and contributing front-end architecture and migrations for startups, reflecting a blend of entrepreneurial leadership and deep hands-on engineering. Based in Chiyoda, Japan, he brings a pragmatic, security-aware approach to client-facing SaaS work, often designing around Supabase Row Level Security for safe client-side operations.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Lifelong Sport Course, Lifelong Curriculum, Lifelong Sport Course, Lifelong Curriculum at Hokkaido University of Education
Business Administration and Information Science, Bachelor's Degree, Business Administration and Information Science, Bachelor's Degree at Hokkaido Information University
Chinese, Japanese