Kei Inoue is a seasoned technology leader and CTO based in Tokyo with 14 years of hands-on experience building and scaling web services across startups and listed companies. He left university early to enter the industry, rising from part-time engineer to multiple CTO roles where he shaped architecture, infrastructure, and engineering organizations. Kei combines deep backend expertise—contributing to prominent PHP projects like laravel-swoole and php-enqueue, improving Swoole coroutine stability and DBAL v3 compatibility—with practical product delivery. He has a track record of recruiting and mentoring teams while driving technical strategy at growth-stage ventures. Comfortable shipping code and leading at the executive level, he brings a pragmatic balance of low-level troubleshooting and high-level system design. Outside work he humorously notes “I am a cat” on GitHub, hinting at a playful, curious streak behind his technical rigor.
14 years of coding experience
情報環境学部 情報環境学科 コンピューター・ネットワーク工学コース, 情報環境学部 情報環境学科 コンピューター・ネットワーク工学コース at Tokyo Denki University
High performance HTTP server based on Swoole. Speed up your Laravel or Lumen applications.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:10 commits, 5 PRs, 4 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Kei primarily contributed to the backend of the `laravel-swoole` project, a high-performance HTTP server for Laravel applications. Their work involved fixing bugs related to Swoole's coroutine context, task worker configuration, and resolving issues with task execution within the Swoole environment. They also refactored and improved code related to the coroutine context handling, demonstrating a focus on Swoole-specific integration. These changes aim to improve the stability and functionality of the Swoole integration within the Laravel framework.
Message Queue, Job Queue, Broadcasting, WebSockets packages for PHP, Symfony, Laravel, Magento. DEVELOPMENT REPOSITORY - provided by Forma-Pro
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:3 reviews, 7 commits, 1 PR in 13 days
Contributions summary:Kei primarily worked on the `php-enqueue/enqueue-dev` repository, focusing on the integration with the Doctrine DBAL library. Their contributions involved refactoring and updating code to support DBAL v3, specifically within the DbalConsumerHelperTrait, DbalContext, and DbalProducer classes. They also introduced a DbalTypeResolverTrait for type resolution, and their work included modifications to consumer and test classes to align with the DBAL changes. These changes reflect an effort to keep the project updated and compatible with other dependencies.
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