Takanori Saiki
Tech Lead at WASO
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTakanori Saiki is a London-based tech lead with 14 years of experience building and scaling web platforms, from founding-engineer roles to engineering management and platform ownership. He combines hands-on backend and full-stack delivery—Ruby on Rails, TypeScript/NestJS, Kubernetes and AWS—with a strong emphasis on clean code, SSDLC, and evolutionary architecture. Takanori has repeatedly set up delivery processes, CI/CD, observability, and internationalisation, and has a track record of turning ambiguous product requirements into working MVPs and public APIs. He excels at growing teams and coaching engineers while still contributing code, having led teams from first hire to a 10-person product engineering squad. Pragmatic and product-focused, he often bridges strategic roadmaps and day-to-day execution to accelerate time-to-market.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science and Software Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science and Software Engineering at Osaka UniversityHigh School Diploma General Studies, High School Diploma General Studies at Funairi High School
English, Japanese
Github Skills (35)
integrate10
java10
benchmark9
broker9
microservices9
pipenv8
apache8
apache-camel8
eip8
serverless-plugin7
mqtt6
aws5
requirements5
aws-lambda5
python5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
takanorig/mqtt-bench
Apr 2015 - Apr 2017
Benchmark tool for MQTT Broker
Contributions:2 releases, 20 commits, 3 PRs in 2 years
benchmarkmqttbrokermqtt-broker
takanorig/example-karate
May 2018 - Aug 2020
Contributions:1 release, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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