I am a Full Stack Web Developer with more than 8 years of professional experience, specializing in PHP and JavaScript. Inspired by the book “The Pragmatic Programmer,” I am passionate about testing, robust design, and writing readable code.

ZeBrand Inc., New York (Remote) | Oct 2019 - Dec 2023

■ ZeBrand is a brand-building platform with everything you need to plan, design and brand

• Established a culture and framework for testing by setting up test environments and automated tests using PHPUnit, Docker and GitHub Actions, as well as by hosting a book club on testing
• Led a 4-person development team by vetting potential technologies to use and by implementing a fully tested AI-based font recommendation system from scratch using Next.js, React, tRPC, Tailwind CSS and LangChain
• Led another 5-person team to fully localize ZeBrand by hosting weekly scrums, setting project milestones, and researching and selecting tools, which increased paid users by 157%
• Implemented user-specific OGP images by using Laravel and optimized performance by introducing a load-distributing queue with Amazon SQS to manage image generation
• Collaborated frequently with design and content marketing teams to plan and build new features using Figma and Storybook

Kakaku.com, Inc., Tokyo | Apr 2015 - Sept 2019

■ I was in charge of three web services: a social networking service for sharing videos and photos, a site aggregating real estate information, and a hotel accommodation booking site

• As a tech lead, managed the project progress of a 5-person team, designed and estimated specs for web, database, and encoding servers, and launched a social networking service from scratch using Laravel and MySQL
• Led the migration of a batch server for a website with 2 million unique users, by estimating specifications, identifying bottlenecks, conducting tests, and transitioning the database and key-value store to redundant configurations to optimize performance
• Set-up a framework to obtain data for sales strategies by implementing Metabase, custom-writing SQL queries for other departments and providing coaching on how to use them
• Mentored and fully on-boarded a new hire with no prior programming experience to work as a PHP Developer in 3 months