Summary
Shota Senga is a Staff Software Developer based in Vancouver with 11 years of experience building scalable backend infrastructure and resilient data pipelines. He specializes in pragmatic tradeoffs between performance and maintainability, with deep experience architecting HIPAA-compliant ETL for high-sensitivity medical data, streaming patterns with DLQs, and LLM hardening against prompt/template injection. His background spans high-throughput systems, serverless pipelines, and ecommerce microservices with idempotent designs and Auth0 M2M authentication. Notably, he chose EAV over JSONB to enforce referential integrity for customer-configurable fields and diagnosed subtle PDF rendering regressions by isolating browser contexts. A concise, code-first engineer who literally describes himself as “reading code,” he pairs hands-on implementation with thoughtful system design and operational reliability.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer