Taro Komatsu is an engineering manager with nearly two decades of software experience, currently leading the Sales Growth team at Mercari, Japan’s largest C2C marketplace. He combines hands-on engineering roots—building video games and founding development teams—with a strong focus on team self-organization, Scrum adoption, and mentorship. At Mercari he shapes roadmaps, aligns engineering work with company leadership, and hires and develops engineers to drive measurable sales growth. His career spans startups and product companies where he repeatedly built engineering capabilities from scratch, including choosing Python for an organization new to in-house development. Based in Chiyoda, Tokyo, he brings a blend of product-minded leadership and practical delivery experience from studio to scale-up environments.
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Taro Komatsu - Engineering Manager at Mercari, Inc.