Sotaro Karasawa
Outside Director at Almoha LLC
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolSotaro Karasawa is a seasoned technology executive and entrepreneur with 18 years of experience building and scaling consumer and platform products from startup to exit. He has held CTO and VP of Engineering roles at Mercari and Star Festival, led a successful startup exit into Yahoo! JAPAN as Crocos co-founder/CTO, and now serves as an outside director while running his own companies. Hands-on across PHP, Python, C++, JavaScript and DevOps, he blends product-minded engineering with operations research and log-driven decision making to optimize growth and reliability. Known for turning small, agile teams into high-performing engineering organizations, he also has deep experience in web infrastructure and deployment tooling. Based in Tokyo with a master’s in information science from Chuo University, he pairs academic rigor with a track record of practical execution and business growth. An uncommon strength is his history of shifting between founder/operator and director roles, giving him both entrepreneurial grit and governance perspective.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Information Science, Master's Degree, Information Science at Chuo University
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Github Skills (62)
markdown10
javascript10
web-application10
typescript10
application-framework9
php9
php-framework8
sms8
wiki-engine8
twilio8
nodejs7
facebook-messenger7
alexa-skills-kit7
facebook7
bots7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sotarok/openpear_html
Jan 2009 - Sep 2009
Contributions:126 commits in 7 months
crowi/crowi-docs
Jun 2015 - Jun 2019
Contributions:24 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years
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