Kenshiro Nakagawa
Member Of Technical Staff at Anthropic
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKenshiro Nakagawa is a seasoned full-stack software engineer and technical leader based in San Francisco with 14 years of experience building human-centered web products, primarily using Ruby and JavaScript. He has led and scaled high-impact systems across startups and enterprise settings—most recently driving product engineering at Anthropic after shaping Samsara’s Safety and Weather Intelligence platforms as a staff engineer and senior engineering manager. Kenshiro blends hands-on implementation with people and product leadership, acting as tech lead manager balancing EM, PM, and IC responsibilities on geospatial, ML, and large-scale sensor data pipelines. His background includes modernizing critical government healthcare and veterans’ appeals systems at Nava and building customer-facing platforms at Zendesk, evidencing comfort across regulated and fast-moving domains. Known for pragmatic system design and shipping reliable distributed services at scale, he often surfaces human-centered insights to guide technical tradeoffs. He pairs a Computer Software Engineering degree from the University of Colorado Boulder with a track record of turning complex operational data into practical, customer-facing solutions.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science Computer Software Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder
English, French, Japanese
Github Skills (71)
test-framework10
javascript10
test-automation-framework10
webdriver10
devtools10
cucumber10
jasmine10
claims10
protractor10
webdriverio10
browser9
api9
mobile-automation9
test-automation9
testing9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kencheeto/dotfiles
Feb 2015 - Sep 2024
Contributions:34 pushes in 9 years 8 months
zendesk/linksf
Mar 2013 - Aug 2015
A mobile website to connect those in need in to services that can help them
Contributions:936 commits, 15 PRs, 35 pushes in 2 years 4 months
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