Summary
Ryu Yokoji is a seasoned technology leader and co-founder serving as CTO at freee K.K., a leading Japanese cloud ERP provider, with 12+ years of experience shaping product-aligned tech strategy and platform architecture. He drives the company’s technical vision, culture, and platform services to empower small businesses through cloud-native solutions. Prior to freee he built embedded middleware at Sony for Cyber-shot, Handycam and Alpha products, giving him deep systems and C++/Linux expertise alongside web and backend experience from earlier roles. His background blends hands-on engineering across languages and stacks (Ruby, Python, C#, JavaScript) with long-term leadership in startup product scaling. Based in Chiyoda and holding M.Eng./B.Eng. in Computer Science from Keio University, he pairs academic grounding with pragmatic product-focused execution. Colleagues describe him as a strategic thinker who still dives into code when architecture decisions matter most.
12 years of coding experience