Taro Minowa
Tech Lead Manager at Google
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolTaro Minowa is a Tokyo-based Tech Lead Manager with 16 years of experience building international, consumer-facing products at Google and Twitter. He combines full-stack engineering chops with strong problem-solving instincts—evidenced by his Kaggle Master status and long history of shipping cross-platform features like local search and mobile client systems. Taro has led multi-discipline teams across iOS, Android, backend services and data pipelines, often serving as the technical lead for large, time-sensitive initiatives such as news, notifications and growth efforts in Japan. His background includes founding an almost-one-person open-source microkernel project and contributions to distributed storage and language tooling, showing deep systems-level expertise beyond typical product work. Colleagues describe him as a motivated, adaptable team player who thrives as both an individual contributor and a hands-on manager. He brings a rare blend of low-level systems knowledge and product-scale engineering leadership focused on shipping reliable, user-facing features globally.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics at Keio University
English, Japanese
Github Skills (14)
scheme8
r6rs8
mosh7
smp4
fat4
mingw-w644
msr4
interpreter4
xmake3
compiler3
kernel3
operating-system2
linux2
multiplexer2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
higepon/collaborative-filtering
Mar 2011 - Mar 2011
Contributions:11 commits in 1 day
higepon/mosh
Nov 2009 - Mar 2011
Mosh is a free and fast interpreter for Scheme as specified in the R6RS.
Contributions:25 commits in 1 year 4 months
schememoshcompilerinterpreterr6rs
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