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Seattle, Washington, United States

Technical leader for 6-engineer product team using Go, Prometheus, and Telegraf. I made upstream open source contributions to unlock new feature development for my product team. I crafted development plans for new features, outlining high-level implementation choices and tradeoffs for my team to consider, and led retrospectives after customer support.

Technical lead supporting engineering and DevOps for a large Ruby on Rails application (launched in 2008!). Responsible for maintaining service reliability and developer experience. Advocated for customer experience improvements, and used Ruby expertise to tackle strategically significant tech debt.* Reduced VM infrastructure costs by 50% by migrating.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Engineering lead on consulting engagements. Took over a dozen client projects from scoping to product launch. Promoted sustainable development practices including Continuous Integration, Test-Driven Development, and User Research.* Sponsored 7 engineers for promotion to senior and staff roles* Built highly scalable print-on-demand service, with print.

Mountain View, CA

* Lead the implementation of an accounting & financial reporting tool using ASP.NET MVC* Led technical interviews and doubled engineering team size

Burlingame, California

LCI, a credit data analytics company, was my first programming job. My first projects were automating manual checklists that data analysts used to fix common issues with database entries that had been incorrectly parsed from unstructured data. This freed up analysts to spend time on higher value tasks. Later I created a headless web crawler using RabbitMQ.

San Francisco Bay Area

After moving back to the U.S., I spent a few years translating Japanese technical documents into English. Along the way I decided to learn a programming language, and ended up teaching myself Ruby.

Shiojiri City, Nagano Prefecture, Japan

Organized community events to raise multicultural engagement in a Japanese town of 75,000, with large Chinese, Brazilian, and Indian immigrant populations. Published a monthly English-language translation of the city news magazine and other local government documents. Acted as interpreter for the city’s mayor and the director of a regional “incubator” for.

B.A., Japanese, Comparative Literature, Anthropology

Activities and Societies: Hutton Honors CollegePresented research at 2005 HPAIR conference at Tokyo University. In 2005, took 2nd place at.

Exchange Student, Japanese Studies