Taishi Ikai
Software Developer at Nikkei
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolTaishi Ikai is a Full-Stack Software Developer based in Tokyo with 11 years of experience building and scaling user-facing web and mobile products. Proficient in Swift, Python, Go, and TypeScript, he blends hands-on engineering across AWS and GCP to deliver user-centric solutions for large-scale platforms. His career includes long-term engineering roles at Nikkei and recent positions with Nikkei Europe and the Financial Times, reflecting deep domain experience in news and financial publishing. Taishi brings a pragmatic approach to shipping reliable production systems and a background in computer software engineering from Keio University. A detail-oriented developer, he often bridges mobile and cloud-native stacks to accelerate product delivery in fast-moving editorial environments.
11 years of coding experience
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Keio University
Github Skills (80)
swift10
macos10
ios10
image10
srcset9
uilabel9
image-processing9
readability9
objective-c9
imaging9
imgix9
cocoapods9
logging9
xcode9
carthage8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ikait/INSPullToRefresh
Oct 2017 - Jun 2020
A simple to use very generic pull-to-refresh and infinite scrolling functionalities as a UIScrollView category.
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes in 2 years 8 months
pull-to-refreshscrollingcategoryrefreshgeneric
ikait/.dotfiles
May 2015 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 56 pushes, 6 branches in 9 years 11 months
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