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: Python, Go, Azure
• Worked on code generator to generate hundreds of thousands of lines of go code to crawl hundreds of Azure resources.
• Improved rate-limiting and permission checking for crawlers, reducing toil and customer churn.
• Improved monitoring to eliminate occurrences of non-actionable pages.

• Technologies used: Ruby on Rails, DynamoDB, MySQL, AWS
• Migrated 20 billion records from Riak to DynamoDB while ensuring parity.
• Optimized SQL queries to save years of CPU time on our fleet.
• Mentored and promoted knowledge sharing between teams to improve system performance.

• 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