Summary
Shoei Takamaru is an engineering strategy manager and hands-on technical leader with 12 years of experience modernizing legacy systems, scaling cloud infrastructure, and shaping cross-team architecture. He combines deep Ruby on Rails and Go expertise with practical SRE, observability, and security improvements to boost release velocity and reduce system load. As a former CTO and co-founder he has led re-architectures for e-commerce, built AI-driven search agents, and established company-wide engineering standards and hiring practices. Based in Chiyoda, Japan, he excels at roles that blend technical leadership, architecture, and execution while mentoring engineers into senior contributors. Notably, he pairs product-facing front-end work (Hydrogen/Shopify) with backend reliability efforts, demonstrating rare full-stack operational ownership. Open to tech leadership and architecture roles, he favors measurable impact over prestige-driven initiatives.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Information Industry, Bachelor, Information Industry at 芝浦工業大学 / Shibaura Institute of Technology