Summary
Yohei Kanehara is a Staff Software Engineer based in Tokyo with 11 years of experience building full-stack systems and leading small engineering teams. He specializes in Go, TypeScript, React/React Native, GraphQL, and event-driven backends (Kafka/RabbitMQ), and has driven measurable business impact such as a 60% revenue lift and 200% engagement increase from live auction features. Yohei has architected and migrated services across REST, Protobuf/gRPC, and GraphQL, built search and ML-driven categorization systems, and integrated complex third-party platforms like Shopify and Stripe. Comfortable across databases (MySQL, Postgres) and observability tooling (Datadog), he combines hands-on coding with mentorship and delivery ownership. A University of Michigan CS graduate, he splits time between production engineering and developer productivity—having led CI/CD, developer tooling, and the company’s first hackathon.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Computer Science at University of Michigan
English, Japanese