Rory How
Software Engineering Lead at Auxia
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolRory How is a seasoned software engineering lead with a decade of experience building high-traffic, distributed backend systems and scaling product teams across Europe and Japan. Currently leading Storefront product efforts at Auxia after launching Wolt’s online ordering across 14 markets for DoorDash, he blends hands-on Go/Kubernetes microservices development with pragmatic technical leadership and hiring. His background spans founding teams at Mercari’s Growth Platform, architecting resilient payment systems for millions of MAU, and consultancy roles where he paired delivery with mentoring and knowledge-sharing. Based in Tokyo with a Master’s in Big Data & Large-Scale Computing, Rory is motivated by hard engineering problems, rapid learning, and turning lightweight ideas into revenue-generating products. An unusual strength is his consistent involvement in recruitment and D&I initiatives, showing he invests as much in team culture as in system design.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science - Big Data & Large-Scale Computing, Master’s Degree, Computer Science - Big Data & Large-Scale Computing at Aalto UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Software Engineering, 1st Class with Honours (82% GPA), Bachelor’s Degree, Software Engineering, 1st Class with Honours (82% GPA) at Swansea University
English, Finnish, Japanese
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Github Skills (37)
interaction6
clojurescript6
recaptcha6
emacs6
rocks6
emacs-lisp6
javascript6
project-management6
expressjs6
projectile5
cider5
middleware4
nodejs4
server4
melpa4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
roryhow/emacs.d
Feb 2018 - Sep 2024
Contributions:103 pushes in 6 years 7 months
batteries-includedbundlebatteriesemacs-configurationemacs
roryhow/arg-homepage
Mar 2018 - Feb 2019
A personal website build with Re-Frame (Clojure/ClojureScript)
Contributions:7 PRs, 92 pushes, 4 branches in 11 months
reactframeclojurescriptbuild-websiteclojure
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