Naoya Sugimoto is a Tokyo-based software engineer with 13 years’ experience building customer-facing web and mobile products across startups and large companies. Currently at PLAID he works on KARTE using TypeScript, Vue/React and big data stores like BigQuery/BigTable, and previously led server-side design and NLP-driven UX for a LINE AI bot that amassed over a million users. His background spans frontend and iOS development from Yahoo! JAPAN to hands-on backend work on AWS (Lambda, RDS, SQS) and caching, giving him full-stack fluency. Naoya also publishes code and projects—such as an iOS Dribbble client—demonstrating practical UI craftsmanship alongside scalable system design.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science at Doshisha University
Contributions:36 commits, 8 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Naoya primarily worked on developing a Dribbble client application for iOS. They started with a basic UICollectionView setup, implemented a modal view for image details, and integrated the SDWebImage library for image loading and caching, including animated GIFs. The user also set up a basic navigation bar and made UI adjustments.
Contributions:43 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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