Summary
Kōhei Yamamoto is a Product Engineer based in Tokyo with 12 years of experience building and improving e-commerce and reservation platforms. He has led major re-architectures—most notably centralizing authentication and introducing OpenID Connect and MFA for a large shop platform—while also improving developer experience through CI/CD, static analysis, and in-house package infrastructure. Comfortable across backend APIs, security, and operational improvements, he has shipped subscription and payment systems and driven schema-driven API practices in production. A committed knowledge-sharer, he co-authored a book on Ruby, ran a corporate tech blog, and speaks and writes about developer productivity and API design. He blends hands-on implementation with product sensibility, often focusing on developer tooling and platform-level solutions that reduce long-term operational cost.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science at Kobe University
Japanese, English