Kira Hsieh
Lead Backend Engineer at IGG Japan
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolKira Hsieh is a Lead Backend Engineer based in Tokyo with a decade-plus background building high-performance, low-latency systems across gaming, fintech, and embedded domains. She has led architecture and migrations to microservices, implemented exchange-grade matching engines and market data integrations, and introduced observability, CI/CD, and testing practices that measurably improved reliability and developer velocity. Comfortable in both startup and enterprise settings, she pairs pragmatic engineering with mentorship to grow teams and reduce technical debt. Notably, she has hands-on experience bridging software with hardware verification (FPGA collaboration) and building cross-platform simulation/backtesting tools for trading systems. Her focus is on creating scalable, cleanly designed systems that are efficient to operate and easy to evolve.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Department of Computer Science Information Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Department of Computer Science Information Engineering at I-Shou UniversityMaster's degree, Department of Computer and Communication Engineering, Master's degree, Department of Computer and Communication Engineering at National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology
Chinese, English, Japanese
Github Skills (17)
vpn9
proxy9
network9
tunnel8
webserver8
trojan8
anticensorship8
v2ray8
web-application8
proxies7
python6
database5
nodejs4
golang4
vue4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kiraxie/liqueur
Sep 2019 - Jan 2021
A lightweight python framework for Capital API
Contributions:7 releases, 41 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 4 months
python
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