Summary
Yu Koga is a software engineer based in the Greater Tokyo Area with 11 years of experience building and maintaining enterprise web applications and backend systems. He has worked across startups and large companies—from Tagbangers and SoftBank to his current role at Best Beer Japan—shipping REST APIs, multi-tenant authentication with Keycloak, and serverless migrations for Laravel apps. Comfortable across the stack, he has practical experience with Spring Framework, AWS, MySQL/PostgreSQL, Hibernate, and front-end frameworks like React and Angular. A QUT graduate with strong academic performance, he also brings mobile development experience (NativeScript, Android) and a knack for modernizing legacy architectures. Though not actively seeking full-time roles, he continues to apply a pragmatic, security-minded approach to scalable, maintainable systems.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology, Computer Science, 6.375/7, Bachelor of Information Technology, Computer Science, 6.375/7 at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)
IB Diploma, IB Diploma at Katoh Gakuen Gyoshu Senior Highschool