Satoshi Niwa
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Chiyoda, Japan
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolSatoshi Niwa is a Staff Software Engineer at Google with over 15 years of experience building platform and full‑stack products, specializing in Android Framework and Linux-based OS development. He has driven system-wide stability and performance across Android OS and Chrome OS and was a founding member of Google Maps for iOS, bringing mobile-first user experience insight to platform work. His career spans roles improving search, discovery, and safety at YouTube and launching blended mobile/web search in Japan, reflecting a rare blend of low-level OS expertise and consumer product impact. Based in Chiyoda and educated at the University of Tokyo, he pairs research‑grade rigor from the National Institute of Informatics with pragmatic engineering leadership at scale. An avid hint of personality appears in his GitHub bio — C井最高！ — suggesting a playful, culturally rooted presence alongside deep technical craft.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of Tokyo
English, Japanese
Github Skills (13)
javascript8
paradox7
typescript7
scheme6
vite4
pinia4
vue-router4
tsx3
vue3
typechecker2
element-plus2
type-check1
superset1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
tenshikaito/sengoku-scroll-old
Apr 2020 - Nov 2020
A game like Nobunaga's Ambition(KOEI)、 Sangokushi(KOEI) 、Aoki Ookami to Shiroki Mejika - Genghis Khan(KOEI)、Taikou Risshiden(KOEI)、Civilization(Firaxis)、Europa Universalis(Paradox)
Contributions:47 commits, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
gameuniversaliscivilizationparadoxeuropa
tenshikaito/sengoku-scroll
Feb 2021 - Jun 2022
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 1 year 4 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.