Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
— Aristotle
Kenji Tanaka
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Engineer who sweats the last 1%
Profile strength
87%
About
Backend engineer building resilient systems in Tokyo.
Backend engineer with 8 years building high-throughput distributed systems. Previously scaled payment rails to 10k TPS at a Tokyo fintech. Loves clean APIs, boring tech that works, and long runs along the Sumida.
Accomplishments
- Scaled payment rails to 10k TPS
- Open-source contributor to a popular Go framework
Current project
An open-source job queue for Go
Projects
Education
- University of Tokyo — BEng Information Science (2016)
Books reading now
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Movies watched
Your Name
Hobbies
RunningShogi
Languages
JapaneseEnglish
Stack
Languages
Go, Rust
Infra
Kubernetes, AWS