Ken Wagatsuma
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Shopify
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolKen Wagatsuma is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating resilient systems across high-growth product teams, currently improving commerce infrastructure at Shopify from the UK. He has held progressive SRE and engineering leadership roles at Neo4j and Cookpad, where he moved from backend development to tech and group lead responsibilities, blending hands-on debugging with team coaching. Known for diving deep into rabbit holes, Ken excels at diagnosing complex distributed systems and turning root-cause discoveries into durable operational improvements. His background spans software engineering, programming education, and social sciences, giving him a pragmatic, user-centered approach to reliability and automation.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Hong Kong (HKU)Bachelor's degree, Social Network, Programming Education, Bachelor's degree, Social Network, Programming Education at Hitotsubashi University
English
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Github Skills (200)
atom-editor10
amazon-kinesis10
benchmark10
testing10
proxy10
exporter10
influxdb10
browser10
api10
html10
pagerduty10
json10
prepare10
draft-js10
modal-dialog10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
kenju/pixel-filter
Apr 2019 - Jun 2020
Instagram-like image processing library with Canvas API
Contributions:45 commits, 17 PRs, 30 pushes in 1 year 2 months
apiinstagram-likeimagecanvasimage-processing-library
kenju/2djs
Jan 2017 - Apr 2020
JavaScript library for 2-dimensional array.
Contributions:41 commits, 8 PRs, 19 pushes in 3 years 3 months
javascriptjavascript-libraryarraydimensional
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