Takashi Henry Idobe
Boston, MA 02130
idobetakashi@gmail.com https://takashiidobe.com
Summary
Software Engineer @ Zendesk
Work Experience
Zendesk
Sep 2021 - Present
Senior Software Engineer
Boston, Massachusetts (Remote)
- 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.
Amazon
Jun 2021 - Sep 2021
Software Development Engineer
Boston, Massachusetts (Remote)
- 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.
CardFlight
Aug 2019 - Jun 2021
Software Engineer II
Lincoln, Nebraska (Remote)
- 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%.
Skills
- Languages: Ruby, Rust, C++, Python, Javascript, Typescript
- Libraries/Frameworks: Ruby on Rails, React, Express
- Databases: MySQL, Postgres, DynamoDB
- Version Control: Git
Education
Waseda University
Sep 2013 - Jul 2017
B.A. in Global Political Economics
Tokyo, Japan