# Masahito (Masa) Kagawa

> Staff Software Engineer

Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/masahito

Innovative, challenge-driven, and results-focused professional offering sound knowledge and comprehensive experience in software engineering and development; backed by expertise in system integration and database administration. Exemplify skills in completing tasks within fast-paced settings without compromising quality and timely completion of projects. Adept at conceptualizing and implementing cutting edge systems and solutions to streamline operations toward sustainable growth. Effective at formulating core program design, network layers, and protocols. Equipped with exceptional communication and interpersonal aptitudes in building strong rapport with colleagues and professionals of all levels. Bilingual in English and Japanese. 

- Application Developer, especially expertise for middle-ware, back-end, microservice, database system, TCP (UDP)/IP networking, deep knowledge in Unicode and internationalization.
- Specialties: Regular Expression, NodeJS, Meteor, PHP, C# .NET, JSON/XML, HTML5, Java, Scripting languages including VB, JavaScript, Perl, Bash (Shell script). Also very strong in C/C++. Database including MSSQL, Cassandra, MongoDB, MySQL.  Strong in development on Linux environment.
- Additionally, strong in hardware related development, including Arduino (C and assembly) platform, Respberry PI.
- Leadership in Japanese Community in Bay Area, such as the volunteer chair in Japanese school, the chair of Silicon Valley Japanese Ham (Radio) Club, Former chair of a couple of Chorus groups in SF bay area, Former chair of Japanese Choral Federation of Northern California.
- Active research / development in Ham Radio digital communication community, D-Star and DMR radio, FreeDV radio.

#HamRadio #AmateurRadio #DStar #FreeDV #ARES

Volunteering in the emergency communication team in the city. Ham radio operator since 1980, actively operates in CW, Phones and digital mode voice.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Teladoc Health
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Sr Backend Engineer @ Teladoc Health
Jan 2018 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Sr. Software Engineer @ TaqTik Health Inc.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Silicon Valley, CA
Works for product's backend /DB schema design and development with emerging platforms including Meteor, NodeJS, Angular, Bootstrap and also PHP.
Strength in databases including Mongo, Cassandra, MySql (MariaDB), MSSQL, even MSJET. Also very strong in PHP platform and JavaScript (both server & client side), C/C++ code.

### Sr. Software Engineer @ Proximex / Tyco Securty Products
Jan 2008 – Jan 2015 | San Jose, CA
worked for key products' software development including API development for 3rd party.

### Sr. Software Engineer @ Merced Systems
Jan 2006 – Jan 2008
worked for key products development and platform itnernationalization

### Sr. Software Engineer @ Scalix
Jan 2004 – Jan 2006
worked for email system development with C++/MFC

### Sr. Software Enginner @ NetIQ
Jan 2002 – Jan 2004

### Sr. Software Enginner @ eGain Communications Corporation
Jan 2000 – Jan 2002

### Sr. Software Enginner @ Lotus Development Corporation (acquired by IBM)
Jan 1998 – Jan 2000 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Enginner @ Lotus Development Japan, Ltd
Jan 1993 – Jan 1998

### Software Engineer @ Digital Equipment Corporation
Jan 1988 – Jan 1993


## Education
### Bachelor of Engineering in Physics and Materials Science, Computer Science
The University of Electro-Communications


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mkagawa

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Last updated: 2026-04-12