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Ryan Ginstrom describes his unexpected career turn towards being an engineering manager, and the unique freedoms he's found at Mercari.
Read his story...Russell Cole is an Engineering Manager at MeetsMore. Originally from the UK and with 18 years of previous experience, he explains how the freedom and flexibility that MeetsMore gives its engineers has contributed to its success.
Read his story...Paul is the AI Lead at EARTHBRAIN, where he’s been tasked with building out their AI roadmap and AI team. He talks about the opportunities for AI technologies in the construction industry, what sort of team he hopes to build and what projects he expects to be working on.
Read his story...Ashwini leads one of PayPay’s payment sub-teams. She got there by doing something she’s done throughout her career: identifying something she wants to do and asking to do it.
Read her story...Lukas Reineke is a team lead at HENNGE, where he splits his time between engineering work and management tasks. He explains how the freedom he has at HENNGE makes it a great working environment.
Read his story...Nigel was fresh out of college when he joined KOMOJU as a developer. He's now risen to tech lead, where he's helped build out their payment platform while maintaining a healthy work-life balance.
Read his story...Since joining Givery’s HR Tech division as an engineering manager two years ago, Wil Andrade has helped scale their engineering team from nine to twenty-four engineers. Wil shares how he's not only grown a team, but provided an environment where no one wants to quit.
Read his story...Jieqiong shares her experience of joining Mercari and working as a tech lead. She explains their engineering culture and provides tips for potential applicants.
Read her story...Jos is a senior software engineer and team lead of the payments and collections team at Kraken. He is also a line manager and a tech lead. Jos tells us about the environment at Kraken, what his job involves, and what makes working there so rewarding.
Read his story...After graduating from university, Richard came to Japan and found a job as a software developer. Eventually he joined Degica, where he rose to the role of CTO.
Read his story...Kazunori initially joined Degica as a web application engineer, but by identifying problems he wanted to fix, his role shifted first to VP of Infrastructure, and then VP of Payment Products.
Read his story...Cortland recently joined SmartNews as an engineering manager, where he leads a six person team. He talks about what drew him to the company, his role as a manager, and how they use matrix management to maximize their engineers’ success.
Read his story...Jeremy Marin was the first full time developer to join Crowd Cast. Five years later, the development team has grown to thirteen, with him becoming the engineering manager.
Read his story...TokyoDev started off with me writing about my own experiences being a developer in Tokyo. As other international developers asked me questions about working here, I wrote articles to answer them. Now TokyoDev has evolved into a site dedicated to helping international developers start and grow their career in Japan.
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