Summary
Kai Kitamura is a Tokyo-based software engineer with 11 years of experience who excels at improving products end-to-end, especially backend systems paired with frontend and cloud infrastructure. He prefers synchronous, collaborative development and often serves as a bridge between engineering and non-engineering stakeholders. Practically minded, he designs infrastructure to be low-maintenance and easily scalable, experimenting personally with serverless and edge platforms like Lambda, Cloud Run, Cloudflare Workers and Neon. Skilled in Node.js/TypeScript, Hasura, Next.js, GitLab/GitHub CI and AWS/Vercel, he also has past experience with Rails and Python (OpenCV, Selenium). Beyond shipping features, he enjoys optimizing development environments and seeking smarter, zero-to-scale deployment patterns in his spare time.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
準学士, 情報工学, 準学士, 情報工学 at サレジオ工業高等専門学校
Japanese, Chinese