Shinsaku Chikura
University Lecturer at Bukkyo University
Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolShinsaku Chikura is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with 15 years of experience building web platforms, leading engineering teams, and serving as CTO for multiple startups. He combines deep hands-on skills in Ruby/Rails, front-end technologies, and cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Linux) with pragmatic agile leadership (XP, Scrum for ~30-member teams). As founder of Librize he scaled a niche book-rendering platform to 380,000 registered books and 15,000 users, and he continues to tackle social and communication challenges through product-focused engineering. Now balancing academia as a university lecturer with ongoing startup leadership, he brings a rare blend of practical startup grit, long-term product stewardship, and a love of coding that shows up even in unconventional places like park-based work sessions.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Mathematics, Elementary Education and Teaching, Bachelor of Mathematics, Elementary Education and Teaching at Aichi University of Education
Github Skills (19)
user-friendly9
scalable8
census8
java8
geotools8
commons8
wps8
todoist4
api3
mastodon-api3
mongodb3
ruby2
gnu2
nodejs2
pixelfed1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
chsh/facebook-wiki-app
Jul 2011 - Oct 2011
Contributions:53 commits in 3 months
chsh/geohex4j
Oct 2010 - Aug 2015
GeoHex implementation for Java
Contributions:23 commits, 3 PRs, 2 pushes in 4 years 11 months
commonswpscensusjavageotools
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