Ridvan Baluyos
Applications Engineer
Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
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Top SchoolRidvan Baluyos is an Applications Engineer with nearly two decades of software development experience and 12 years of professional engineering practice, currently leading the Cycle Racing (Keirin) Product Engineering team at Rakuten in Kawasaki. He combines hands-on architecture and full-stack delivery with people leadership—managing 15 offshore engineers across three teams, mentoring, conducting design/code reviews, and owning release management. Past roles span startups to enterprises (OLX, Rakuten, Kate of Tokyo), where he rebuilt ordering/inventory systems, drove CI/CD, cloud operations on AWS, and introduced Scrum to improve delivery cadence. Known for disciplined, context-aware problem solving (StrengthsFinder: Context, Harmony, Discipline, Achiever, Input), he pairs pragmatic process improvements with measurable business impact—such as boosting sales and holiday revenues for e-commerce sites. Outside work he’s an avid cyclist and reader who also spends spare time chasing and caring for stray cats, reflecting a practical, empathetic approach to both engineering and people.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Major in Information Technology, Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Major in Information Technology at Xavier University - Ateneo de CagayanHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Corpus Christi High School
English, Filipino, Japanese, Cebuano
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (29)
leader10
bug-tracker9
pair-programming9
management8
devrel8
traffic8
api8
routeros8
fetch8
face-api8
php-library6
paw-extension6
google-maps-api6
mfc6
google-maps6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ridvanbaluyos/face
May 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:9 releases, 37 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 5 months
apiface-apiphpmicrosoftphp-library
ridvanbaluyos/chikka
Oct 2014 - Nov 2016
Contributions:24 commits, 4 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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