Summary
Junji Watanabe is a software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently at Google Japan, who excels at shipping new services and leading small technical teams in startup and product-driven environments. He has driven complex initiatives such as system migrations, cross-platform apps, and an employee sentiment analysis service while improving development workflows through CI/CD, AWS, and GitHub automation. Junji designs end-to-end applications—building PC and mobile web apps from scratch, crafting relational schemas with caching strategies, and selecting fit-for-purpose technologies based on product needs. His background spans machine learning prototyping (recommendations, face search) and secure ML experimentation with MPC, plus hands-on work on Bitcoin-based proofs of concept. He pairs an agile, task-driven management style with an engineer’s curiosity, demonstrated by side projects in object detection and unsupervised job-posting classification. Based in Chiyoda, Tokyo, he brings a pragmatic blend of production engineering, ML experimentation, and developer experience improvements.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering at Tokyo Institute of Technology
Japanese, English