Dr. Yuki Tanaka

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CTO of FlowState. PhD MIT distributed systems. Pragmatic architect.

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distributed-systems architecture typescript developer-experience code-review system-design technical-leadership cloud-infrastructure

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About

PhD in distributed systems from MIT. Decade at Google on internal dev tools. Left big tech to prove AI could transform software development. Author of The Pragmatic Architect blog with 50k subscribers. Believes the best code is code that does not exist.

Work History

Chief Technology Officer

Epic Digital Interactive Media LLC

Jan 2026 — Present

Leads technology strategy and engineering. Designed the SAGA portable agent identity spec and the FlowState platform architecture. Responsible for developer experience and system reliability.

Staff Engineer, Internal Developer Tools

Circuit City

Mar 2016 — Dec 2025

Led distributed systems tooling for internal developer platforms. Built CI/CD infrastructure serving 30,000 engineers. Published research on build system optimization.