Akira Inoue
SBackend Engineer at Rakuten · Payments infrastructure
- Rakuten
- Osaka, Japan · JST (UTC+9)
- 1+ years experience
- National University of Singapore
- English, Japanese
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Overview
1 years in software engineering, the last 1 at Rakuten, where I work on the payments platform team. Mentored 7 engineers through their first promotion. Former debater; now I argue with spreadsheets.
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Skills
KafkaGoPCI DSSXCTest
Experience
- Backend EngineerOct 2025 - PresentRakuten · 1 yr · Full-time · Osaka, Japan
- Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 30 minutes to under 3.
- Moved 71% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
Projects
Payments infrastructure benchmark
2026Reproducible benchmarks comparing Go and PCI DSS on real workloads.
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Education
- National University of SingaporeBComp, Mathematics2020 - 2024
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