Shotaro Watanabe
Chief Operations Officer
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolShotaro Watanabe is a technology executive with 11 years of experience bridging hands-on engineering and operational leadership, currently serving as COO of Livefor (CAMPFIRE). He began his career developing early iOS and Android apps and helped launch Life is Tech!, later speaking on IT education at the University of Tokyo before earning a CS degree from Georgia Tech and studying at NUS. At Amazon he led Alexa Shopping in Japan and Romania, hiring and scaling teams of 150+ while driving ML and big data initiatives, then served as CTO of Compass where he shaped technical strategy and engineering orgs. Known for combining product-level curiosity with data-driven decision making, he’s equally comfortable in code, data pipelines, and high-stakes cross-cultural scaling challenges.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Makuhari Junior and Senior High SchoolBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at National University of Singapore
English, Japanese, Chinese
Github Skills (3)
calc5
android-application3
android2
Github contributions (5)
liafailboy/FortuneCookie
Feb 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:30 commits, 3 PRs, 20 pushes in 11 months
android-applicationandroid
liafailboy/sake_prototype_iphone
Mar 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:37 pushes, 1 branch, 14 issues in 1 month
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