# Kazu T.

> Software Engineer | CMU MSE Alumni

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kazu

With 11 YOE in software engineering, I've delivered high-performance systems across various sectors. I notably enhanced WealthNavi, a major financial consumer-facing app in Japan, which boosted sales by 30% and led to a successful IPO.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2024 – Present | Burlingame, California, United States
Wearables (ex-AR) Lab Infra Team at Reality Labs; Responsible for Automation Test Device Farm for Displayless AI Glasses with Python / Android / AOSP; Manged to scale the device farm to 600% for next-gen Displayless AI Glasses, with scaling in mind, platforimizing the device farm system with existing Displayless AI Glasses.

### Teaching Assistant - Distributed Systems (15-440) - Fall '23 @ Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Conducted Recitation, Office Hours for 300 students teaching concurrent programming in Go, designed HW, midterm questions

### Senior Software Engineer @ WealthNavi Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | Tokyo, Japan
Led a team to optimize a consumer-facing financial product (WealthNavi), transitioning successfully from startup to IPO. Spearheaded significant technical transformations, including introducing predictive and recommendation engines and migrating from monolithic to microservices architecture—enhanced infrastructure by migrating databases to AWS Aurora, optimizing front-end performance, and refining deployment pipelines.

### Software Engineer @ NRI (Nomura Research Institute)
Jan 2013 – Jan 2018 | Tokyo, Japan
Maintained foreign stock exchange system with Java and Spring in top security company in Japan


## Education
### School of Computer Science in Master of Software Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023

### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
Keio University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013

### Bachelor of Engineering - BE in Computer Science
Keio University
Jan 2007 – Jan 2011


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/pco2699
- GitHub: https://github.com/pco2699/

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Last updated: 2026-03-22