Rika Tanaka

Overview

I've spent 17 years on financial services strategy - first at HSBC, now at Pebble Studio. Ran commercial diligence on 12 deals. Designed the operating model for a 10 thousand-person transformation. Before that: Atlassian and EY. Parent of two, so mostly sleep-deprived.

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Experience

1. Managing Director

   Jan 2026 - Present
   Pebble Studio · 9 mo · Full-time · Tokyo, Japan
   • Shipped 17 launches on the search team without a rollback.
   • Moved 89% of search traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
2. Business Analyst

   Dec 2023 - Jan 2026
   Atlassian · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Tokyo, Japan
   • Brought on-call pages for search down from 34 a week to 4.
   • Moved 64% of search traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
3. Consultant

   Dec 2021 - Dec 2023
   EY · 2 yr · Full-time · Tokyo, Japan
   • Designed the operating model for a 6 thousand-person transformation.
4. Business Analyst

   May 2019 - Dec 2021
   Afterpay · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Tokyo, Japan
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 17 minutes to under 4.
5. Engagement Manager

   Jul 2017 - May 2019
   HSBC · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Tokyo, Japan
   • Designed the operating model for a 2 thousand-person transformation.

Projects

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Education

1. Monash University

   BCom, Engineering
   2005 - 2009