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Kenji NakamuraJoined · 202204 / 08

Tokyo

JST · UTC+9

ex-Notion

01·Team · Engineering

Kenji Nakamura

Head of Engineering

"Fewer meetings. More shipping. Better code review."

02·About

A little more about Kenji

Kenji leads day-to-day engineering — code review, on-call, sprint planning, and the never-ending calibration of our engineering ladder. He came from Notion where he was engineering manager on the mobile team through Series C.

He runs a mostly-async engineering culture from Tokyo and is the reason our PR review median sits at 4 hours despite being spread across 12 timezones.

Philosophy
"The best code review is the one where the reviewer learned something too. If reviews are one-way, we're hiring wrong."

Currently working on

Rolling out a mentorship program for our founding-engineer cohort — first hires shipped last month.

03·Career

Where Kenji has been

  1. N

    Engineering Manager, Mobile

    2019 — 2022

    Notion

  2. L

    Senior Engineer, Messaging

    2016 — 2019

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  3. M

    Full-stack Engineer

    2013 — 2016

    Mercari