About / @reizist

Reiji Kainuma.

Career, skills and selected experience as a software engineer in Tokyo.

Updated · 2026-08-01 Download PDF

Profile

Reiji Kainuma
Age
37
Location
Kanagawa, Japan
Employer
Fez, inc

Recent Development Experience

  • New development and operation of a BI service using Next.js / FastAPI / LangChain / Google Cloud
  • Redefining the data analysis process in the generative AI era (automating generative AI from a Semantic Layer, automating marketing analytics)
  • Contribution across the marketing automation flow (target planning → market analysis → target extraction → quantitative review)
  • Data development using generative AI (extracting new product axes and analyzing user preference trends using vector data)

What I Want to Do Going Forward

  • I want to grow products by performing fact-based policy review / planning using generative AI and data.
  • I want to join a finance- or real-estate–focused startup and redefine products for the generative AI era.

English Proficiency

Level
Basic conversational level

Work Experience

  1. 01 2023.04 — 2026.07 3y 3m

    Fez, Inc. Full-time Employee

    Urumo BI

    2023.10 — 2026.07
    Position
    Full-stack Engineer
    Management Role
    Head of Engineering (Management Team)
    Team Size
    10–50 people
    Role
    Manager
    Technologies
    • Google Cloud
    • BigQuery
    • Looker
    • FastAPI
    • ChatGPT
    • LangChain
    • Claude

    After the initial launch of Urumo BI — a BI service that drives sales lift through data analysis on brick-and-mortar store purchase data (ID-POS) — I built out the team and now lead day-to-day operations across the PM, engineering, and data teams. We deliver data analysis (product and customer analysis) and marketing use cases (customer segmentation) for retailers and manufacturers, continuously monitoring usage and prioritizing enhancements and new features. I was promoted to Web Development Group Manager in December 2023, Head of Product Development Department in January 2025, and joined the management team as Head of Engineering in January 2026, where I now own strategy and execution for the entire engineering organization.

  2. 02 2020.04 — 2023.03 2y 11m

    Quipper, Inc. Full-time Employee

    Building the Data Platform for Studysapuri / Studysapuri English

    2020.04 — 2023.03
    Position
    Data Engineer
    Team Size
    1–10 people
    Role
    Team Lead
    Technologies
    • Docker
    • Google Cloud
    • BigQuery
    • Terraform
    • Python3
    • Embulk
    • Presto
    • TreasureData

    Fully migrated the data platform from TreasureData to BigQuery. Migrated roughly 70 SQL queries — some exceeding 1,500 lines — from Presto to run natively on BigQuery, while building Airflow (Cloud Composer) from scratch. Codified the infrastructure with Terraform and moved data-acquisition scripts (App Store download / install counts, A/B testing infrastructure, GA data exports, etc.) to a containerized execution environment. Replaced what had been puzzle-like, ad-hoc operations with a new platform built around clean task dependencies, dramatically reducing the incident rate and completing the migration in about 10 months.

  3. 03 2019.03 — 2020.03 1y

    Quipper, Inc. Full-time Employee

    Development of an English-Training Feature for Studysapuri

    2019.03 — 2020.03
    Position
    Backend Engineer
    Team Size
    10–50 people
    Role
    Member
    Technologies
    • Ruby
    • Ruby on Rails
    • React
    • Terraform

    Joined Quipper's web dev team, contributing to a year-long large-scale development project — performing Rails upgrades, restructuring logs, and developing audio-training features.

  4. 04 2018.03 — 2019.03 1y

    Recruit Marketing Partners Co., Ltd. Full-time Employee

    Development and Operation of "kidsly" — A Business Support System for Nursery Teachers / Nursery Schools

    2018.03 — 2019.03
    Position
    Infrastructure Engineer
    Team Size
    10–50 people
    Role
    Member
    Technologies
    • Ruby
    • AWS
    • Ruby on Rails
    • Fluentd
    • Terraform
    • CircleCI

    Operations and development of a web application using Rails / building a log infrastructure using fluentd / building a secure image-delivery environment using CloudFront / refactoring of the infrastructure-management environment via Terraform (modularization, workspace removal, code-ification of Lambdas via Apex).

  5. 05 2017.02 — 2018.02 1y

    Repro Full-time Employee

    Development, Operation, and Monitoring of the Backend for a Marketing Automation Tool

    2017.02 — 2018.02
    Position
    Infrastructure Engineer
    Team Size
    10–50 people
    Role
    Member
    Technologies
    • Ruby
    • AWS
    • Docker
    • Fluentd
    • Terraform
    • Presto
    • Datadog

    Operation and development of a fluentd cluster / operation of the distributed datastore Presto and construction of its monitoring environment / construction of a monitoring environment using Datadog and OSS development.

  6. 06 2014.05 — 2016.11 2y 6m

    Ignis, Ltd. Full-time Employee

    Operation and Development of the Social Game "Bokudora"

    2014.05 — 2016.11
    Position
    Backend Engineer
    Management Role
    Team Lead
    Role
    Team Lead
    Technologies
    • Ruby
    • MySQL
    • AWS
    • Redis
    • Ruby on Rails
    • AWS CloudFormation

    Development and operation of a social game / management and localization of the overseas (Taiwan) rollout. Promoted from Backend Engineer to Team Lead in October 2015.

  7. 07 2013.04 — 2014.04 1y

    Tokyo System Development, Inc. Full-time Employee

    Backend Development for Contract Software Development Projects

    2013.04 — 2014.04
    Position
    Backend Engineer
    Role
    Member

    My first job out of university. Worked as a backend engineer on contract software development projects.

Education

  • The University of Electro-Communications March 2013
    Department of Computer ScienceGraduated

Self-PR

bot → @reizist-bot

AI Utilization in the Engineering Domain

Continuously updated based on talks and internal case studies. https://speakerdeck.com/fez_dev/fez-cloud-next-tokyo2024-hureikuautosetusiyond1-da-07