Summary
Shun Arahata is a software engineer with nine years of experience building scalable backend systems and data pipelines across startups and large product teams in Tokyo and Singapore. He has a track record of pragmatic engineering: refactoring monoliths into microservices, designing gRPC services and protobuf tooling, and choosing Athena over PostgreSQL to solve hard analytics performance limits. At FLYWHEEL he drove adoption of Renovate and Turborepo, cut CI and network costs substantially, and implemented monitoring and RAG search infrastructure; at Yahoo! Japan he accelerated a DSP search engine by 15%. Now at Wolt, he continues to focus on robust, cost-effective architectures and developer productivity. He holds advanced training from the University of Tokyo in information science and brings a blend of systems, data, and tooling experience that surfaces nonobvious efficiency gains.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of Tokyo