Shinpei Nakata
Senior Software Engineer Technical Lead at Mercari, Inc.
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolShinpei Nakata is a Senior Software Engineer and Technical Lead based in Tokyo with 17 years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed search and retrieval systems. He started in information retrieval at Rakuten, moved into site reliability, and now leads technical efforts at Mercari, combining production-grade SRE rigor with hands-on system design. Deeply interested in computational efficiency and optimization, he favors C, Go, and Java and brings a background in programming languages and system dependability from graduate-level research. His career blends academic training (advanced studies in computer engineering) with practical leadership on high-throughput search architectures, and he’s known for squeezing latency and cost out of complex systems. An early campus ambassador at Sun Microsystems and long-time collaborator in international volunteer organizations, he pairs technical depth with cross-cultural team experience.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
La Salle High SchoolPh.D (Left), Computer engineering, Ph.D (Left), Computer engineering at Yokohama National University
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Github Skills (40)
parsing10
parse10
java9
parser9
csharp9
parser-generator9
php9
grammar9
swift9
cpp9
charts8
binary-files8
python8
antlr8
javascript8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
shinpei/java-exp
May 2018 - Jun 2021
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 3 years 1 month
shinpei/jinotify
Feb 2014 - Mar 2014
Contributions:89 commits in 25 days
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