Summary
Yuki Namikawa is an executive-level backend and infrastructure engineer with 16 years of experience building and operating high-traffic services, often acting as an SRE to guarantee reliability and non-functional requirements. He has held senior technical and executive roles including CTO and Executive Officer across multiple Japanese tech firms, blending hands-on systems design with product management and engineering organization. Skilled in load balancing and automation, he steadily moves between architecture, operations, and strategic leadership to scale services and teams. A published author and frequent speaker in Japan, he brings an ability to communicate complex infrastructure topics to both technical and business audiences. Based in Chiyoda, Tokyo, he combines academic foundations in computer science with a pragmatic track record of shipping resilient systems and shaping engineering culture.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Science and Engineering (Computer Science), Master, Science and Engineering (Computer Science) at Ritsumeikan University