Suguru Namura
Software Engineer at LayerX Inc.
Chiyoda, Japan
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolSuguru Namura is a seasoned software engineer and technology leader with 16 years of experience building consumer platforms and system architectures, most notably leading Mercari’s US marketplace development and serving as Mercari’s CTO. He has a deep background launching large-scale services from his CyberAgent days (Ameba Pigg, AWA, AbemaTV) and has since held executive and hands-on engineering roles at Souzoh, LayerX, and other Japan-based startups. Comfortable toggling between strategy and code, he specializes in scalable C2C marketplaces and platform engineering while guiding cross-functional teams through growth phases. Trained in Computer Science and Engineering at The University of Aizu, he blends product-minded leadership with a pragmatic, systems-first approach to shipping reliable services. An often-overlooked strength is his continuity across startup and corporate environments, enabling rapid influence from prototype to production.
16 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science and Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering at The University of Aizu
Japanese, English
Stackoverflow
44reputation
597reached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (134)
api-management10
terraform10
security10
consul10
microservices10
stream10
proxies10
swift10
kubernetes10
graph10
xcode10
macos10
objective-c10
ios10
aws10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dogenzaka/react-manager
Mar 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:28 commits, 8 PRs, 33 pushes in 2 months
console
suguru/cql-client
Nov 2013 - Mar 2015
Contributions:79 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 1 year 3 months
cassandra-cql-drivercqlcassandranode-jsnodejs
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.