Summary
Mitchell Atlas is a software developer consultant based in Tokyo with 11 years of experience building full-stack web and cloud-native systems across industries from food delivery to IoT and recruitment. Trained as a nuclear engineer (Master’s from The University of Tokyo) and formerly a mechanical system engineer at Exelon Nuclear, he brings a systems-thinking approach to reliability, cost optimization, and root-cause analysis in software projects. He has delivered scalable services using Node.js, TypeScript, React, Kotlin, Spring, Kubernetes, GCP and AWS, and has a track record of cutting operating costs and simplifying architectures—such as reducing cloud spend by over 50% and replacing costly SaaS with OSS-based e-commerce. Known for improving developer productivity (standardizing environments to 2x throughput) and shipping pragmatic full-stack solutions, he blends disciplined engineering rigor with product-focused delivery. Fluent in cross-functional collaboration in Japanese tech environments, he often surfaces non-obvious infrastructure and security risks before they become problems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Chemical Engineering and Nuclear Engineering, Physics Minor, Bachelor's Degree, Chemical Engineering and Nuclear Engineering, Physics Minor at University of California, Berkeley
University of Tokyo
English, Japanese