Summary
Kansuke Ikehara is a Senior Data Engineer based in Hamburg with 11 years of software and data engineering experience, specializing in building high-performance, cloud-native data pipelines. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Python, Go, Java, Spark, Airflow, Docker, and Kubernetes to design and optimize ETL workflows and large-scale transformations—delivering measurable improvements such as 3x speed-ups in Spark jobs. At PriceHubble he established robust data quality and integration practices across multiple sources and helped grow team processes; he now applies that experience to data platform work at Transporeon. Kansuke pairs a strong academic foundation (M.S. in Computer Science from University of Colorado Boulder) with practical startup and enterprise experience, making him comfortable across both rapid iteration and production-grade reliability. Known for fostering collaboration between engineers and stakeholders, he focuses on turning complex requirements into dependable, observable data products. An engineer who equally values performance tuning and team culture, he brings a pragmatic, metrics-driven approach to solving data problems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Electronics Engineering and Computer Science at Fukuoka University
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
Japanese, English, German