Issei Naruta is a Principal Engineer with 17 years of experience designing and operating large-scale backend systems, currently leading engineering efforts at 株式会社IVRy in Chiyoda, Tokyo. He spent the bulk of his career at Cookpad/COOKPAD Inc., progressing from backend developer to CTO and GM of Server Infrastructure and Network, where he shaped platform reliability and developer productivity. His background includes early backend work at Yahoo! JAPAN on Yahoo! Mail, and a Master’s in Information Science with a focus on AI from Nagoya University. Known for bridging hands-on system design with strategic leadership, he excels at turning infrastructure challenges into scalable, maintainable services. Peers describe him as an engineer who blends deep technical rigor with a talent for organizational scaling and cross-team collaboration.
18 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Information Science, Artificial Intelligence, Master of Information Science, Artificial Intelligence at 名古屋大学 / Nagoya University
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