Sho Ito
Software Developer at Canadian Securities Exchange (CSE)
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolSho Ito is a pragmatic Full Stack Software Developer with 15 years of software experience and over seven years focused on building scalable web applications and SaaS products. Currently at the Canadian Securities Exchange, he brings a track record of performance-led improvements—leading backend caching, lazy loading, and frontend pagination efforts that halved load times for a CRM adopted by 300+ companies. He has delivered high-throughput e-commerce systems supporting 1.2M annual users, migrated services to microservice architectures, and led small teams while formalizing a mentoring program that doubled junior developer productivity. An active open-source contributor, Sho has fixed critical bugs and improved the FF4j feature-flag console, addressing encoding and JDBC timeout issues in a well-known Java project. With an MS in Blockchain and Digital Currency and a BA in Economics, he blends strong systems engineering with product-minded thinking and a curiosity for emerging fintech and distributed systems.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Economics, Bachelor of Arts - BA Economics at Hosei UniversityMaster of Science - MS Blockchain and Digital Currency, Master of Science - MS Blockchain and Digital Currency at University of Nicosia
Japanese, English, Korean
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Github Skills (13)
xml10
javas10
feature-flags10
feature-toggle10
java10
toggle10
thymeleaf9
spring-boot9
web-development9
jdbc8
cors6
nginx6
google-chrome6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
ff4j/ff4j
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
Feature Flags for Java made easy
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 13 PRs, 4 comments in 21 days
Contributions summary:Sho primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the functionality of the FF4j web console. They addressed issues related to XML import/export, character encoding, and character encoding problems within the web application, particularly in Thymeleaf templates. The commits reveal work on Java-based code, including adjustments to JavaDoc comments and resolving the "Lock wait timeout exceeded" error in the JDBC feature store implementation, and overall improvements to the web interface. This included a feature description modification issue.
spring-datatoggleflagsspringsling
shoito/japarser
Mar 2011 - Dec 2011
Contributions:10 commits in 8 months
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