Summary
Soshi Kido is an experienced full-cycle development engineer with 18 years building production systems for startups and consumer platforms from Tokyo’s Chiyoda. He has deep backend and cloud-native expertise—shipping microservices on GKE with Go, Terraform, Spanner, and CI/CD tooling like CircleCI and Spinnaker—and routinely owns development through testing, deployment, and operations. His career includes driving high-scale HTML5 game engineering that reached millions of users and maintaining notable open-source JavaScript work, reflecting strong front-end and multimedia foundations alongside backend systems. At Souzoh and Merpay he’s been the go-to individual contributor who turns product requirements into reliable, automated delivery pipelines. Colleagues know him for blending pragmatic engineering with a startup mindset and for mentoring teams on new technologies and operational practices.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer