Taiki Yamashita
CEO at Garoop
Chiyoda, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolTaiki Yamashita is the founder and CEO of Garoop, a Tokyo-based edtech startup building a gamified learning platform that teaches children programming, design, AI use, and finance. With a decade of experience, he combines hands-on engineering—having single-handedly built the product stack using Go, Next.js, MySQL and AWS—with strategic leadership and marketing through channels like GaroopTV. He led an infrastructure optimization effort that, in collaboration with SRE partners, reduced AWS costs by roughly ¥8 million per month, demonstrating operational rigor beyond product development. Technically fluent across Java, Kotlin, Go, TypeScript, GraphQL and Scala, he bridges backend systems, cloud infrastructure and product UX. Taiki studied economics and accounting at Nagasaki University, and brings that analytical mindset to education business models and point-driven reward systems convertible to real-world vouchers. Known for a casual, approachable style, he actively seeks partners, sponsors and investors aligned with his mission to foster entrepreneurial mindsets in children.
10 years of coding experience
学士（経済学）, Accounting, 学士（経済学）, Accounting at 長崎大学
Github Skills (31)
audiounit10
plug10
vst10
plugin10
clap10
audio10
juce10
cpp10
audio-effect10
high-resolution-net9
application-framework9
cross-platform9
desktop9
linux9
windows9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
wakewakame/dotfiles
Feb 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
wakewakame/WebGLTest
Jun 2017 - Oct 2020
Contributions:293 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
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