Shinichi Ohno
Director Of Platform Product, Merpay
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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SeniorShinichi Ohno is a seasoned product and platform leader with 13 years of experience building and scaling core consumer and ad businesses in Japan, currently directing platform product at Merpay. He combines hands-on engineering insight with strategic product management, having led Cookpad’s premium service to 2M subscribers and ¥9B annual revenue and driven major ad tech and payment improvements. Known for tackling complex, high-impact challenges, he orchestrated a V-shaped subscriber recovery and engineered quarterly ad revenue growth through rebuilt ad servers and mobile display initiatives. Shinichi also consults independently, bringing cross-company perspective and rapid execution to early strategic problems. Based in Tokyo, he blends technical fluency with business acumen, routinely recruiting and growing teams from scratch to deliver measurable outcomes. An operator who favors pragmatic technical bets, he excels at turning product and payment friction into growth levers.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (32)
testing10
facebook10
javascript9
cli9
command-line-tool9
strip8
macos8
homebrew8
administration8
binaries8
vast7
movie6
png5
image5
animation4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
shin1ohno/jani
Feb 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:1 release, 93 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 2 months
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shin1ohno/resume
Jul 2019 - Jan 2024
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 4 years 6 months
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