Katsunori Tanaka is a software engineer based in Tokyo with 12 years of experience building resilient data and payment systems for consumer and enterprise services. He has focused on streaming and batch data pipelines, cloud-native backend services, and SRE practices using Kafka, Flink, Debezium, Spark, Airflow, Argo, and Kubernetes across companies like Woven by Toyota, Mercari, and LINE. At Woven he is developing the payment system and its data pipeline for Woven City, combining high-availability streaming and cloud infrastructure work. His background includes on-prem and cloud platform engineering from Sony and GREE, giving him a pragmatic understanding of systems from embedded devices to large-scale cloud data platforms. Known for designing secure, highly available Kafka deployments and operationalizing complex ingestion workflows, he blends deep infrastructure chops with hands-on delivery. He holds a master’s in Intelligent Mechanical and Information Engineering from the University of Tokyo, reflecting a strong academic foundation behind his applied systems work.
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Katsunori Tanaka - Software Engineer at Woven by Toyota