Shota Kono
VP Of Engineering at 株式会社SOUHL
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolShota Kono is a Tokyo-based engineering leader with 11 years of experience building backend systems for consumer platforms, currently serving as VP of Engineering at 株式会社SOUHL. He spent recent years developing the backend of a social e-commerce platform at カウシェ and held engineering roles at Mercari, Recruit, and LayerX, showing a pattern of fast-paced contributions across notable Japanese tech companies. Comfortable shipping production services, he blends hands-on backend engineering with strategic team leadership and product-focused delivery. A Tokyo Institute of Technology computer science graduate, he pairs academic grounding with practical startup and scale-up experience, often stepping into short-term, impact-driven roles to accelerate product roadmaps.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Tokyo Institute of Technology
Github Skills (7)
sfc9
aqua8
simulation7
quantum-computing6
python1
internet1
networking1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ngym/.emacs.d
Jan 2015 - Jun 2021
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 5 months
ngym/quisp
Apr 2021 - May 2026
Open source implementation of quantum internet simulation package
Contributions:12 pushes, 8 branches in 5 years 1 month
quantum-computingsimulationquantuminternetquantum-internet
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