Summary
Yoshihiro Tanaka is a Senior Software Engineer based in Tokyo with 11 years of experience building high-performance, large-scale distributed systems using Erlang/Elixir, Java, and Python. He has a proven track record of squeezing orders-of-magnitude improvements in capacity and latency—most notably driving an 800% latency/capacity improvement and saving ~1,000 machines on ad-serving backends. At Tubi he helped design a new Elixir-based ads video serving component and led CI/CD and Kubernetes migrations; he now contributes to Microsoft Fabric. Comfortable across backend and mobile stacks (Android/Flutter), he combines deep systems-level optimization skills with practical delivery experience. He holds an MS in Computer Science (3.94 GPA) and is known for pragmatic performance analysis that turns operational pain points into durable architecture wins.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.94/4.0, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.94/4.0 at San Francisco State University
Japanese, English