Wataru Ikarashi
Software Engineer at Niantic, Inc.
Cupertino, California, United States
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Top SchoolWataru Ikarashi is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack SaaS and web applications, currently focused on mobility data products in Cupertino. He has held multiple engineering roles at Niantic and earlier contributed to platforms at SmartDrive, ExaWizards, and PLAID, bringing proven experience shipping production services across startups and mid-stage companies. Trained at The University of Tokyo with a master’s in Information Science and Technology, he blends strong academic foundations with hands-on product delivery. Comfortable across front-end and back-end development, he repeatedly moves between feature work and system-level engineering to drive measurable product outcomes. Based in the Bay Area, he combines pragmatic engineering with a specialty in data-driven mobility applications—often tackling the integration challenges between real-time telemetry and consumer-facing interfaces.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of Tokyo
Japanese, Chinese
Stackoverflow
341reputation
8kreached
8answers
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Github Skills (19)
mongodb8
nodejs8
dom7
foreign7
foreign-data-wrapper7
modeling7
odm6
jestjs6
orm6
sql6
typescript6
python6
json6
mongoose6
asynchronous6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
wikrsh/hello_fdw
Jan 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 2 years 2 months
fdwdatabaseforeignpostgresqlforeign-data-wrapper
wikrsh/algorithms
Jan 2020 - Oct 2021
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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