Hironori Takahashi
Principal Software Engineer at ZALORA Group
Singapore
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Top SchoolHironori Takahashi is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience designing scalable systems and optimizing MySQL-powered platforms across e-commerce and mobile gaming in Singapore and Japan. He has led multi-cultural engineering teams to deliver high-impact projects—re-architecting product creation and sync systems at ZALORA that unlocked millions in annual NMV and enabled zero-downtime migrations of millions of records. Comfortable at the intersection of product and operations, he builds resilient integrations between SAP, PIM, OMS and marketplaces, and often solves thorny catalogue and API sync issues with surgical SQL diagnostics and bespoke tooling. He mentors junior engineers, enforces testing discipline, and drives cross-team initiatives like cross-border fulfilment and Freshdesk-driven validation flows that cut manual work and revenue leakage. Trained as an electrical engineer at Waseda University, he pairs rigorous systems thinking with a pragmatic focus on maintainability, cost savings, and measurable business outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Waseda University
English, JapaneseGithub contributions (3)
sakamoto-san/winston-fluent
May 2013 - Aug 2014
Contributions:2 commits in 1 year 3 months
sakamoto-san/ghc
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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