Summary
Ryo Utsunomiya is a Senior Software Engineer based in Tokyo with 14 years of experience building performant, scalable web and backend systems. He leads a five-engineer team at LY Corporation responsible for a search platform used by millions, where his introduction of Elasticsearch cut average search latency from ~1s to 0.2s and increased availability. Previously he led full-stack migrations at Ikyu Corporation, modernizing front-ends to Vue/Nuxt and backend services from .NET to Go with GraphQL to boost developer productivity and UX. Comfortable across Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, and Elasticsearch, he pairs hands-on engineering with team leadership and a data-informed approach—now collaborating closely with data scientists to further improve search relevance. An engineer who gravitates toward measurable performance wins, he blends legacy migration experience with production-grade search and API expertise.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Uwajima Higashi Senior High School
Retired, Retired at 東京大学 / The University of Tokyo
Japanese, English