Summary
Jun Tomioka is a hands-on backend engineer with 11 years of experience building high-throughput, production systems and cloud-native architectures. He designed and shipped event-sourced, Kafka-driven platforms and rule-driven achievements engines at Wolt, owning services end-to-end and scaling a team from solo owner to three engineers. His background includes solutions-architecture work at AWS where he led migration workshops and advised on cloud best practices, giving him both implementation depth and customer-facing architectural experience. He introduced practical hiring innovations like a Live Debugging interview to better assess real-world debugging and system-design skills in Japan. Comfortable across languages and stacks from Scala and Ruby to TypeScript and Kubernetes, Jun blends pragmatic engineering with strong documentation and cross-team alignment. Based in Tokyo, he often pairs functional-programming ideas with pragmatic product delivery—evident in past EHR and payment-adjacent systems where he applied Clean Architecture and snapshotting to tame production scale.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Information or B.A., Music, Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Information or B.A., Music at Keio University