Ken Watanabe
Flutter DeveloperEmail:ken@bytedance.com
Phone:+65 8123 4567
Location:Singapore
Professional Summary
Mobile engineer specialized in Flutter. Ships apps to 200M+ users at TikTok Live. Known for clear communication, ownership, and shipping measurable outcomes. Combines strong software fundamentals with cross-functional collaboration and a bias for execution.Experience
Aug 2022Present
Senior Mobile Engineer
ByteDance · Singapore
• Owned TikTok Live shopping flow (60M+ MAU across SEA)• Cut cold-start 41% via deferred initialization
• Contributed 8 PRs to Flutter framework
• Improved CI cycle time from 35m to 13m
• Owned critical services at ByteDance; improved p95 latency by 35%
Jan 2019Dec 2020
Software Engineer
Orbit Systems · London, UK
• Owned critical services at Orbit Systems; improved p95 latency by 52%• Led migration of 3 services to modern stack with zero downtime
• Mentored 4 engineers; 2 promoted within a year
• Reduced production incidents 47% via better observability and runbooks
• Partnered with product to ship 2 high-impact features used by 62k users
Skills
Flutter, Dart, iOS, Android, Kotlin, Swift, Firebase, GraphQL, CI/CDProjects
Platform Reliability Upgrade (ByteDance)
TypeScript, React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, AWS, Docker
• Documented learnings reused by peer teams
• Recognized in team/org review for execution quality
Customer Dashboard v2
TypeScript, React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, AWS, Docker
• Documented learnings reused by peer teams
• Recognized in team/org review for execution quality
API Performance Initiative
TypeScript, React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, AWS, Docker
• Documented learnings reused by peer teams
• Recognized in team/org review for execution quality
Platform Reliability Upgrade (ByteDance)
TypeScript, React, Node.js, PostgreSQL, AWS, Docker
• Documented learnings reused by peer teams
• Recognized in team/org review for execution quality
Education
B.Eng, CS
NTU
Singapore
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