Shunta Komatsu

Shunta Komatsu

Engineering Manager

About Me

I'm a tech leader with over 5 years of experience in both software engineering and team management. I hold a Master's degree in Computer Science and have a strong passion for AI, FinTech, and real estate.

Basic Information

Name
Shunta Komatsu
Birthplace
Kanagawa, Japan
Location
Tokyo, Japan
Languages
Japanese (native), English (fluent)
Interests
Go, Observability, FinTech, Payment Systems, Real Estate, and Stocks

Professional Experience

Engineering Manager

Mercari, Inc.Current Position

March 2025 - Present
Leading the Payment Core team developing payment platform. Managing a team of 8 engineers with mixed Japanese and English speakers.

Chief Technology Officer

Yomoyama, Inc.Side Project

May 2025 - Present
Leading full-stack development of a real estate price estimation service.

Senior Software Engineer

Yomoyama, Inc.Previous Position

Jul 2024 - May 2025
Developed a real estate price estimation service.

Technical Lead

Mercari, Inc.Previous Position

Jul 2024 - Mar 2025
Led technical development of payment platform in the Payment Core team.

Software Engineer

Mercari, Inc.Previous Position

Apr 2022 - Jun 2024
Joined as a new graduate and worked on developing a payment platform used company-wide.
For the full work history, please see my LinkedIn.

Education

Master of Science in Computer Science

Tokyo University of Science

April 2020 - March 2022
Focused on artificial intelligence and machine learning. Conducted research on image processing under Professor Yukinobu Taniguchi.

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Tokyo University of Science

April 2016 - March 2020
Coursework in information engineering and statistics. Conducted research on image processing under Professor Yukinobu Taniguchi.

Presentations

Professional Presentations

June 2025
December 2023
September 2023
September 2023

Academic Presentations

Passenger Flow Estimation with Bipartite Matching on Bus Surveillance Cameras

IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR) 2021

April 2021

Publications

June 2025
December 2024
December 2023
June 2023

Awards & Funding

FT Tech PR Award 2025

Shunya Kimura (CTO of Mercari, Inc.)

2025
Company-internal award for technical communication

Best Presentation Award

Art Science Forum

2022

Full Exemption Scholarship

Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO)

2020 - 2022

© 2025 - Shunta Komatsu