About

Takeru Chuganji is a highly skilled and experienced Staff Software Engineer at Mercari, with over 8 years of relevant experience. He is the first Staff Software Engineer in Mercari US and has been instrumental in the success of the US business, which became profitable in 2020. Takeru's expertise lies in mobile engineering, React Native, and microservices. He has a strong track record of re-architecting mobile components and API endpoints as needed and investigating errors in the entire system and solving them. He proposed to rewrite mobile apps in React Native and drove the effort to make the decision as well as building the app using Redux ToolKit. He also proposed a 3-year Mercari US engineering roadmap and drove the effort, starting from React Native rewrite, hiring strategy, when to start scaling, GraphQL migration, React Native Web, monorepo, etc. Takeru has worked at Mercari for several years, starting as a Senior Software Engineer in Japan and then moving to the US as an expat to focus more on the US business. He has designed many feature works for better future scalability, led the App Foundation team which is to improve developers' experience by building/providing frameworks, built/maintained build tools, and mentored the entire engineering team, including hiring. He has also helped design some microservices, established a development process for the mobile team, researched and solved potential security issues, and established a weekly release cycle for iOS, Android, and React Native. Takeru holds a degree in Design from Kyushu University, where he studied Art and Information Design. He is highly skilled in Software Engineering, React Native, Mobile, Redux, Web, Research Scientist, iOS, and Microservices. He is also an active contributor to open-source projects and has a Github profile with several projects. Overall, Takeru Chuganji is a highly motivated and skilled software engineer with a proven track record of success at Mercari. He is passionate about mobile engineering and has a strong vision for the future of Mercari US engineering.