Yuki Tanaka

C006

Senior Engineering Manager

Tokyo, Japan

Summary

Full-stack engineer turned manager with 8 years of experience. Scaled engineering team from 5 to 25 at Mercari. Expert in Go and distributed systems.

8.6

Years Experience

$130,000

Expected Salary

Remote

Work Mode

Skills

Languages: Go Python Java TypeScript Rust
Frameworks: Gin FastAPI Spring Boot Next.js gRPC
Databases: MySQL Spanner Redis BigQuery
Cloud: GCP AWS
Tools: Docker Kubernetes ArgoCD Prometheus Terraform

Work Experience

Engineering Manager

Mercari

2021-01 - present

48 months

Managing backend platform team of 12. Led migration from monolith to microservices reducing deployment time by 80%.

Go TypeScript Kubernetes GCP Spanner Pub/Sub

Senior Backend Engineer

LINE

2018-06 - 2020-12

30 months

Built messaging infrastructure handling 100B+ messages/month. Implemented message queue system with zero message loss.

Go Python Kafka Redis MySQL Docker

Backend Engineer

Rakuten

2016-04 - 2018-05

25 months

Developed e-commerce search and recommendation APIs serving 50M+ users.

Java Spring Boot MySQL Elasticsearch AWS

Projects

GoMQ open-source

9 months

Lightweight message queue written in Go. 3k GitHub stars, adopted by several startups.

Go gRPC etcd Prometheus GitHub

K8s Cost Optimizer personal

4 months

Tool for optimizing Kubernetes resource allocation and reducing cloud costs.

Go Kubernetes Prometheus Grafana GitHub

Education

Masters in Information Technology

Tokyo University

Graduated 2016 • GPA: 3.7

Certifications

  • GCP Professional Cloud Architect
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator