Shinya Yanagihara
Software Global Black Belt, Sr Technical Specialist at Microsoft
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolShinya Yanagihara is a seasoned software specialist with over a decade of experience helping developer organizations modernize tooling, processes, and culture across global teams. Currently a Software Global Black Belt at Microsoft after roles at VMware, Google, Pivotal, Oracle, and IBM, he focuses on developer productivity, Spring and Kotlin ecosystems, and application modernization. He blends hands-on platform architecture and developer advocacy to drive measurable improvements in software delivery and team collaboration. Based in Tokyo with an MS in Information Science, Shinya pairs enterprise sales and technical consulting experience to translate business needs into scalable engineering practices — a perspective shaped by time spent both selling and building platforms. He’s known for advocating cross-functional change that addresses people and process as much as technology, not just code.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Information Science, Master of Science - MS Information Science at Tokyo University of Science
Github Skills (6)
javascript9
open-source9
spring1
struts1
java1
spring-boot1
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
shinyay/chromebook-setup
Apr 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:73 commits, 70 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
shinyay/pcf-workshop
Nov 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:9 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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