Masakazu Ohno
Chief Technology Officer at bitgrit Inc.
Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolMasakazu Ohno is a serial entrepreneur and technical leader with over 20 years of engineering experience and more than a decade in executive roles, currently serving as CTO of WEAVEDB and advising as VPoE at bitgrit. He has founded and led multiple product and engineering ventures across UGC, DeFi, NFT, and DApp spaces, overseeing backend, infrastructure, and distributed teams across Japan, Southeast Asia and the UAE. A hands-on developer at heart, he contributed notable backend features to the popular goinsta Instagram API wrapper in Go—adding location/tag search, cookie-based unauthenticated access, and tests—demonstrating both API design and test-driven development discipline. Masakazu combines practical infrastructure migrations (on-prem to AWS), team building and M&A experience with a pattern of launching projects that attract incubation and hackathon recognition. Based in Abu Dhabi and educated in system engineering at Wakayama University, he blends entrepreneurial grit with multilingual, multicultural engineering leadership.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Faculty of System Engineering Department of Computer and Communication Sciences, Bachelor's degree Faculty of System Engineering Department of Computer and Communication Sciences at Wakayama University
English, Japanese
Github Skills (9)
go10
instagram-api10
go-testing10
api-design10
testing10
json9
error-handling8
http8
concurrency6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ahmdrz/goinsta
Feb 2017 - Nov 2017
Unofficial Instagram API written in Golang
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & API Developer
Back-end Developer & API DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 8 PRs, 9 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Masakazu primarily focused on expanding the functionality of the Instagram API wrapper in Go. They added features to retrieve related tags and location feeds, and implement search location functionality. The user also implemented cookie management to enable the use of the API without requiring login and added tests to ensure the correctness of the new features.
golangapiinstagram-unofficial-apiinstagram-apiinstagram
rakd/gin_sample
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:90 commits, 6 PRs, 32 pushes in 11 days
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