Junichi Furukawa
Engineering Manager Integrations Team
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJunichi Furukawa is an engineering manager in Portland with 10 years of experience leading integrations and API-driven data pipelines at Lytics, after rising from Lead Integrations Engineer to manage the Integrations team. He specializes in connecting and normalizing data across hundreds of external web services to support reliable ingestion and near‑real‑time activations, blending hands‑on backend engineering with team leadership. Earlier roles include building high‑traffic, event‑driven systems and payment processing on a LAMP stack, and even co‑founding a local concert startup where he ran engineering and growth. He also contributes to open-source tooling in Go, improving date/time parsing and timezone handling, reflecting a practical attention to edge cases that often break integrations. With an MS in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon and a background adding ISA features at IBM, he brings both low‑level rigor and product‑focused systems experience to complex integration problems.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (6)
golang10
timed10
datetime10
go10
dates10
datetimes10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
araddon/dateparse
Feb 2017 - Jul 2017
GoLang Parse many date strings without knowing format in advance.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 5 PRs, 2 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Junichi primarily focused on enhancing the date parsing functionality of the `araddon/dateparse` GoLang library. Their work involved refining the parsing logic to correctly handle time formats that include "AM" and "PM". The user also added new date format parsing options and updated the timezone parser. These changes significantly improved the library's ability to accurately parse various date and time string inputs, enhancing its overall usability.
golangdatetimedates
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