Paul McMahon
Founder
Paul is a Canadian software developer who has been living in Japan since 2006. Since 2011 he’s been helping other developers start and grow their careers in Japan through TokyoDev.
Contributions
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外国籍エンジニアが取得できるビザの種類とは？ 日本で働く外国籍エンジニアが取得可能なビザの種類を解説。
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Helping Japanese companies build global engineering teams TokyoDev has launched a new Japanese language blog focused on aiding Japanese companies in building English-speaking engineering teams.
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日本で働く外国籍エンジニアの給与はいくら？ 外国籍エンジニアと典型的な日本人エンジニア両方の給与体系を詳しく紹介
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Announcing the 2024 TokyoDev Developers Survey Our annual developer survey is now live! If you’re a software developer living in Japan, please help us by taking it.
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LinkedIn’s Broken Automation Took Down My Company’s Page Without Warning TokyoDev's LinkedIn page was taken down due to broken automation on their side. Here's what happened.
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How TokyoDev improves your job hunt This article covers TokyoDev's role in your job search, detailing how we earn money, curate and improve job listings, and help you become a better candidate.
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How Cybozu Built an International Engineering Team How one of Japan's first B2B software companies has built an English-speaking team from scratch.
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RubyKaigi 2024 reflections A summary of TokyoDev's activities at the world's largest Ruby conference.
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Why do so many Japanese homes have bars over the windows? If you wander around any residential neighbourhood in Japan, you’ll notice many home windows with bars over them. This article explores three factors that may have contributed to their prevalence: window location, the Japanese fire code, and traditional architecture
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Converting a Japanese Sole Proprietorship to a Company How to transfer contracts and IP from an individual to a Japanese company.
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TokyoDev 2023 Recap Highlights include 74 devs getting a job via TokyoDev, going from me being the only author to having 13 others contributing, and sponsoring 8 different organizations.
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Unbricking my MacBook took an email to Tim Cook After my lost MacBook was returned to me with an Activation Lock on it, Apple refused to unlock it. Only after emailing Tim Cook could I get it unlocked.
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The Remarkable Decline in Home Burglary Rates in Japan From 2003 to 2022, the number of home burglaries in Japan decreased by a factor of 12! Reasons behind it include a lower unemployment rate, an increase in crime prevention volunteers, and higher building security standards.
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個人のブログから利益を生むビジネスへ：TokyoDevのストーリー この記事では、こじんまりと始まった個人ブログが利益を生む求人サイトとなり、月に数万人が訪れるコミュニティへと進化したストーリーをお話しします。
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Personal Blog to Profitable Business: the Story of TokyoDev This is the story of how the site has evolved from its humble origins as my personal blog to a flourishing job board and community that serves tens of thousands of visitors per month.
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The 2023 TokyoDev Developer Survey results are live! This year’s survey had a total of 713 respondents who shared their experiences working as an international developer in Japan.
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Not setting up Find My bricked my MacBook How I had paid ¥77,619 (500 USD) to have a bricked MacBook returned to me.
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Announcing the 2023 TokyoDev Developers Survey If you’re a software developer living in Japan, please help us by taking it.
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Software Developer Salaries in Japan Compiles various sources for software developer salary data to help you judge the market.
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The Difficulties of Getting a Software Developer Job in Japan in 2023 Theories about why it is more difficult to get a job as an international developer in Japan in 2023 than a couple years prior.
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Cover letters in the era of ChatGPT ChatGPT seems like it is a powerful tool for writing a custom cover letter for a job. But what it produces won't help you.
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Will a company in Japan find out your previous salary? Companies in Japan can roughly figure out what you made at your previous job, so you might be caught if you exaggerate your compensation.
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Supporting communities that empower women in technology TokyoDev sponsors communities that are working to empower women in technology.
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Keeping your job board legal in Japan In October 2022, new regulations were put into place that put legal requirements on job board operators.
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The 2022 International Developers in Japan survey results are live! 558 international developers living in Japan answered our survey about themselves and their work.
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Announcing the 2022 International Developers in Japan Survey If you're living in Japan and working as a developer, please take our survey by November 6th, 2022.
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The 2021 International Developers in Japan results are live! 435 international developers living in Japan answered our survey about themselves and their work.
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Announcing the 2021 International Developers in Japan Survey If you're living in Japan and working as a developer, please take our survey by November 22nd, 2021.
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Why I sold Doorkeeper After working on it for more than ten years, I sold Doorkeeper, an event management platform I bootstrapped.
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Skyrocketing software developer salaries in Japan a portent of a seismic shift Software developer salaries in Japan have dramatically increased since I first came here, but this isn't without its downsides.
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The 2020 International Developers in Japan results are live! 362 international developers living in Japan answered our survey about themselves and their work.
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Recruiters and Human Traffickers: A Short History of Employment Agencies in Japan If you recruit without a license in Japan, you could go to jail. The surprisingly interesting historical origins of recruiting in Japan explains why.
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COVID-19 and IT Jobs in Japan An overview of how COVID-19 affected the software developer market in Japan soon after the pandemic started.
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Visas for Software Engineers in Japan The complete guide to visas that permit you to work as a full time software developer in Japan.
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2019 International Developer in Japan Survey Results The results of a survey of international software developers in Japan. Breakdowns based on several criteria like language, tech, and company size.
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All code is technical debt As adding more code to a product will slow down development, we should view all code as technical debt.
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How to Get a Software Developer Job in Japan A guide to understanding your chances of getting a job as a programmer in Japan are, and what the first steps you can take are.
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Marketing yourself as a developer While solid technical skills are necessary to land great jobs, your ability to sell yourself is as important, if not more so.
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Hiring a Japanese Virtual Assistant I’ve hired several Japanese virtual assistants to help me with various small tasks. Especially if you’re not a fluent Japanese speaker, knowing where to look for one can be tricky, so I’ll share my tips for finding one.
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How to Survive and Thrive as an Engineer in Japan The experience of an Australian software engineer working in Japan.
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Creating a business in Japan: lessons from a 3 time entrepreneur An overview of the gotchas when incorporating a company in Japan based on my personal experience of incorporating three of them.
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International Developer in Japan Salary Survey 2014 In our first survey, we only got fifteen replies. Future surveys would do much better.
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Getting a job at a Japanese startup How a developer living in London got a job at a Japanese startup.
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Entry Level Jobs in Japan Why you won't find junior developer positions advertised in Japan.
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How I landed a software developer job in Japan The story of my personal journey of coming to Japan straight out of university and finding a job as a Ruby developer at a Japanese startup.
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