Takashi Henry Idobe

idobetakashi@gmail.com | https://takashiidobe.com | https://github.com/takashiidobe

Summary

Backend Senior Software Engineer with background in performance optimization, databases and distributed systems.

Work Experience

• Technologies used: Ruby on Rails, DynamoDB, MySQL, AWS
• Migrated 20 billion records from Riak to DynamoDB while ensuring parity.
• Developed an asynchronous job framework to parity check and migrate billions of records.
• Mentored and promoted knowledge sharing between teams to improve system performance.

• Technologies used: Typescript, React.js, Java, AWS
• Built data ingestion and transformation pipelines processing billions of records from dozens of data sources.
• Designed microfrontend dashboards to visualize millions of records within 100ms of page load.
• Led initiative to fuzz Data Lake, fixing dozens of bugs due to incorrect processing of records.

• Technologies used: Ruby, Kotlin, Swift, Typescript
• Led initiative to implement Level III transactions on payments gateway.
• Expanded line of terminal products to new platforms while maintaining previous products.
• Wrote on-call documentation and monitoring for backend to cut incident response time by 50%.

Education