Taiki Kaneko

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer

I’ve spent the past 9+ years building software, mostly with startups and small teams. I’ve always enjoyed the early days most — when ideas are still taking shape and there’s a lot to figure out.

These days, I work as an independent engineer, helping founders and teams solve tricky problems and turn good ideas into real products. Always happy to chat, especially over coffee.

Selected Work

Products I’ve helped build as a contract engineer.

Ramp

Worked with the Ramp team on finance automation, from invoice processing and expense tracking to multi-level approvals and one clear view of company spend.

FinTech
Expense Management
Financial Workflows

Krea AI

Collaborated with the Krea team on a generative AI workspace that brings image and video models together with real-time editing.

Generative AI
Image & Video
Creative Tools

Intercom Fin

Worked with the Fin team on AI customer support that answers routine questions from a knowledge base and hands off to people when needed.

Conversational AI
RAG
Support Automation

Photoroom

Collaborated with the Photoroom team on AI product photography: background removal, generated scenes, and batch editing for online sellers.

Generative AI
Image Processing
E-commerce

Gumloop

Worked with the Gumloop team on AI workflow automation, connecting apps, agents, and APIs with human approvals and live run monitoring.

AI Agents
Workflow Orchestration
API Integrations

Tellescope

Collaborated with the Tellescope team on healthcare operations: online scheduling, digital intake, secure messaging, and care coordination.

Healthcare
Patient Portal
Workflow Automation

Experience

Where I’ve been building, from restaurant tech to AI.

2025–Now
2025–Now
Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
Independent·International startups
End-to-end SaaS features, LLM workflows, and integrations for early-stage teams.
2022–2024
2022–2024
Lead Software Engineer
Karakuri·AI customer support
Led AI support APIs, agent handoff, and LLM reply suggestions.
2021–2022
2021–2022
Senior Software Engineer
Kaminashi·Frontline operations
Turned paper inspections into digital forms, approvals, and reports.
2018–2020
2018–2020
Software Engineer
Rakuten·E-commerce and payments
Built order and payment APIs that handle retries safely.
2017–2018
2017–2018
Software Engineer
Toreta·Restaurant reservations
Built reservation tools and POS integrations for restaurant staff.
2013–2017
2013–2017
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
Kyoto University·Education