Keisuke Kobayashi is a seasoned engineering leader and CTO with 11 years of experience building mobile, backend, and game systems across startups and large companies in Japan. He currently leads technology at kickflow after managing Android and cross-functional engineering teams at Merpay, Kyash and other fintech and platform startups. His hands-on background spans Android, iOS, C++ game clients, Ruby on Rails web apps, and low-level multimedia drivers from an early Sony tenure, giving him rare breadth from device drivers to product-facing mobile services. Keisuke combines team-building—hiring, interview design and recruitment events—with deep technical delivery, often serving as both tech lead and people manager. Trained in computer vision and AI at the University of Tokyo, he brings an analytical, research-informed approach to product and system design. Outside of work he signs off with “Happy Hacking!”, reflecting a pragmatic, maker mindset that values shipping and learning quickly.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Computer Vision, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Computer Vision at 東京大学 / The University of Tokyo
Contributions:6 releases, 2 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 1 month
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