Summary
Koichi Yanagimoto is a Tokyo-based software engineer and manager with 11 years of experience specializing in SRE and Ruby development. At Rakuten he has progressed from hands-on software engineering to a managerial role, blending day-to-day system reliability work with team leadership. His background in industrial engineering gives him a methodical, efficiency-focused approach to building and operating scalable systems. Known as a pragmatic problem-solver, he emphasizes automation and observability to reduce toil and improve uptime. Quietly versatile, he pairs deep operational experience with a developer’s mindset, making him effective at bridging product needs and platform resilience.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor, Industrial Engineering, Bachelor, Industrial Engineering at Tokyo University of Science
Japanese, English