Masataka Arai
Chief Technology Officer at 株式会社 SQUEEZE
Shinjuku, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolMasataka Arai is a technology leader and CTO at SQUEEZE Inc. with 11 years of software engineering experience and a track record of moving from hands-on developer roles to strategic product and technology leadership. He helped build and scale SQUEEZE’s smart-hotel operations and the suitebook property management platform—integrating crowd-sourced staffing, task automation, IoT APIs and workflow orchestration for small hotels and vacation rentals. As former CPO and long-time engineer, he blends product sensibility with deep implementation knowledge, enabling rapid feature delivery informed by operational realities. Based in Shinjuku, he is driving SQUEEZE’s ambition to become a global leader in hospitality tech by marrying real-world hotel operations with platform-driven efficiencies. Unusually for a CTO, his academic background is in Japanese literature, which informs his user-focused approach to product and communication.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
学士, 文学部国文学研究室, 学士, 文学部国文学研究室 at 東京大学灘高等学校
Japanese, Chinese
Github Skills (23)
python10
django10
orm10
web-framework10
testing9
test-data9
faker9
django-rest-framework9
flask9
blockchain8
vue8
rest8
bitcoin8
cryptocurrency8
translation7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
massa142/codekaizen03
Jun 2017 - Feb 2026
Slides for コード改善 meetup #3
Contributions:15 PRs, 28 pushes, 29 branches in 8 years 9 months
SQUEEZE-Inc/drf-haystack
Aug 2022 - Aug 2024
Haystack for Django REST Framework
Contributions:3 reviews, 21 PRs, 44 pushes in 2 years
haystackpythondjango-rest-frameworkdjangorest-framework
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