🚀 Founder & Product Engineer | GoGaijin 🇯🇵
📱 Mobile Apps • Payments • Travel Tech • AI-Assisted Systems
I’m a founder-led product engineer building real-world software for travelers and expats in Japan.
I’m currently building GoGaijin, a mobile app that helps non-Japanese speakers navigate daily life in Japan — from payments and services to discovery and localization. I work end-to-end across product, engineering, UX, and go-to-market, shipping production code and talking directly to users.
I focus on:
- Shipping usable products
- Solving real user pain points
- Designing systems that can scale beyond one country
A Japan-focused mobile platform for travelers and expats.
Responsibilities
- Product strategy & roadmap
- React Native (Expo) mobile development
- Firebase backend & authentication
- Payments & third-party integrations
- UX flows for non-Japanese users
- Pitching, partnerships, and startup programs
💡 I’m open to:
- Strategic collaborations (travel, fintech, localization)
- Product-focused engineering discussions
- Startup & founder conversations
- Practical AI usage in consumer apps
Not actively chasing random freelance work — I prefer aligned projects or long-term value creation.
- Founder building in Japan 🇯🇵
- Shipped production mobile applications
- Experience pitching to business & startup audiences
- Comfortable wearing engineer + product + founder hats
💡 “The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.”
— James Baldwin