Summary
Ryo Kato is a versatile software engineer based in Tokyo with 13 years of professional experience and 5+ years focused on web app development, DevOps, test automation, and machine learning. He has shipped UI-heavy frontends and robust backends at companies ranging from AWS to startups, and recently moved to freelance work after a senior engineering role at Sardine. Ryo’s strengths include building scalable data pipelines and deployment automation using AWS/GCP tooling, improving test reliability at scale, and optimizing developer workflows (e.g., drastically reducing E2E test times and automating staging deployments). He blends research and production experience—having contributed to image-generation microservices and high-traffic consumer features—and is comfortable across TypeScript, React, Node.js, and cloud infrastructure as code. Colleagues value his practical focus on measurable impact, such as cutting flaky tests and accelerating CI/CD, alongside a solid academic background from Kyoto University and USC.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.75, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.75 at University of Southern California
Master's degree, Informatics, 3.38, Master's degree, Informatics, 3.38 at Kyoto University
Japanese, English, Chinese