Shota Kuwahara
Technical Product Manager at DeNA
Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolShota Kuwahara is a Technical Product Manager and former lead Rails engineer with 11 years of experience building and scaling consumer-facing services, currently leading technical product work on DeNA’s Pococha live-streaming platform. He blends hands-on Android (Kotlin) and backend (Ruby on Rails, Aurora MySQL) engineering with product leadership, having transitioned organically from service lead engineer to TPdM. Passionate about growing toC products, he emphasizes pragmatic execution—“build tomorrow’s normal today”—and a willingness to do whatever it takes to ship. His background includes SRE experience at dely, giving him a strong operational perspective on reliability and performance. Based in Japan, he prefers selective outreach and responds primarily to known contacts or opportunities that match his interests. A non-obvious strength: he actively bridges engineering and product decisions at the code level, not just strategy.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Faculty of Liberal Arts, Informatics, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Informatics at The Open University of JapanAdvanced Diploma of Information Technology, Information Technology, Advanced Diploma of Information Technology, Information Technology at HAL Tokyo
Japanese, Chinese
Github Skills (13)
rails8
ruby8
ruby-on-rails7
html7
mvc7
activerecord6
javascript1
atlassian1
client-library1
jira1
go-client1
testing1
golang1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
skuwa229/fluent-plugin-path2tag
Mar 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:15 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
skuwa229/negima
Sep 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:2 releases, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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