Eiji Shinohara

Solutions Engineer at GitHub

Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

About

Solutions Engineer at GitHub 6+ years: Full stack field engineering at Algolia 5+ years: Manager/Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services 5+ years: Full Stack Engineer at Rakuten 5+ years: Enterprise Java Engineer/Architect at TIS Inc.

Experience

  • Senior Solutions Engineer at GitHub
    Jun 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Senior Manager, Solutions Engineer - Japan at Algolia
    Apr 2019 - Jun 2025 · 6 yrs 3 mos

    - Field Engineering (both pre-sales and post-sales) - Public Speaking - Podcasting(https://algolia.fm) - English <-> Japanese translation - Customer Support, Sales Support, Support Engineering, Trouble Shooting, Establishing local entity, Hiring,, and more as the 1st Japan-based employee!

  • Amazon Web Services (Tokyo, Japan)
    • Manager, Solutions Architecture - Startups
      Dec 2017 - Mar 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos

    • Senior Solutions Architect
      May 2016 - Nov 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos

    • Solutions Architect
      Aug 2013 - Apr 2016 · 2 yrs 9 mos

      - Public speaking - Architecting on AWS for Japanese Startups and AdTech firms - Organizing IVS CTO Night and Day powered by AWS - Bridge engineering - Technical support / Trouble shoot - Subject Matter Expert for Amazon CloudSearch and Amazon Elasticsearch Service

  • Rakuten (5 yrs 10 mos)
    • Lead Software Engineer
      Aug 2012 - Jul 2013 · 1 yr

      -Building digital contents platform -Designing robust and scalable architecture -Batch application with Java, SpringData, MongoDB -Server side mash-up with SOAP/WSDL -Scrum development with Atlassian products(JIRA, Stash, Bamboo, Confluence)

    • Japanese Search Engineer
      Jan 2012 - Jul 2012 · 7 mos

      -Building Japanese Search system with Apache Solr -Introduce Japanese analyzer(Tokenizer, Nomalizer, Stemmer and so on) -Toronro-Tokyo Bridge Engineering

    • Smartphone Application Developer
      Sep 2011 - Dec 2011 · 4 mos

      - C2C Application for Android - Server Application on dotcloud - Scrum Development with JIRA, Github

  • Java Developer / J2EE Architect at TIS Inc.
    Apr 2002 - Sep 2007 · 5 yrs 6 mos

    - Credit Card Company: Call Center System - Internet Service Company: Billing System - Printing Company: Realtime IC Card Issuing System - Credit Card Company: Data Transfer System - Credit Card Company: Membership Management System - Test Driven Development - eXtreme Programming