Noriaki Utsunomiya is an experienced technology executive and search specialist with a 25+ year track record building search engines, data pipelines, and platform teams across Yahoo! JAPAN, Scaleout, Supership, Mercari, coconala and DIP. He has progressed from hands-on data mining and crawler development to CTO/CISO and VP roles, consistently translating search and recommendation research into commercial products and platform-grade solutions. Known for combining product instincts with operational rigor, he has led SRE, DevOps, FinOps and security practices while driving field sales and go-to-market for search products. His background in inorganic chemistry turned into a practical engineering mindset that favors measured experimentation and data-driven decisions. Though primarily a leader today, he remains a product engineer at heart and often bridges architecture, core search algorithms, and customer-facing platform requirements. Based in Japan, he brings a rare blend of deep search engineering pedigree and executive leadership in high-growth consumer tech.
8 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Inorganic Chemistry, Bachelor of Science (BS), Inorganic Chemistry at 神奈川大学 / Kanagawa University
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