YJS Lab

Web service development support

From planning and requirements through design, implementation, and how the team ships — tech and product together. Even when requirements are still fuzzy, I can help align stakeholders, set clear goals, and carry the work through to delivery.

Alignment and delivery

It’s fine to start from “we know we want something, but it isn’t defined yet.” Through conversation I clarify priorities and goals, then stay with the work through design, implementation, and release — including course corrections along the way — until it lands as a real product.

Offshore teams

When needed, I can help form an offshore development team and get it running. Drawing on experience managing engineering organizations overseas, I support communication design, task breakdown, review habits, and the path from kickoff to steady delivery.

Security

With deep security experience, I can help raise internal security maturity and harden the product itself — vulnerability handling, access design, logging, and monitoring setups that hold up in day-to-day operations.

AI leverage

I also help teams use AI to improve development productivity and security practice — from coding, review, and research workflows to threat analysis and operational support — designing approaches that fit the team and sticking them in place.

Track record

Freelance

2025 – present

  • Megaventure fintech company(Feb 2025 – present) Product Manager for an HR SaaS product. Focusing on non-functional requirements, and currently PM for migrating an acquired product’s infrastructure from on-prem to AWS.
  • Mid-sized company(Aug – Dec 2025) Technical advisor for a trade-operations SaaS — architecture design and developer education, excluding hands-on implementation.
  • AI venture company(Jul – Dec 2025) Full-stack engineer for AI service audit features — requirements through implementation and release.

Full-time

Full Speed (incl. CRAID)

Jul 2020 – Dec 2024

  • Fan-community mobile apps(May 2023 – Dec 2024) Technical PdM. Rebuilt the development setup, completed the Flutter migration, automated builds with Terraform, and led live streaming with AWS IVS to establish a production-ready scale-out model.
  • CTO Office lead(Jul 2021 – Dec 2024) Hiring strategy, company-wide CI/CD, internal security, productivity visibility, LLM adoption, and AWS/GCP account consolidation that cut more than ¥1M / month.
  • Philippines offshore development lead(Jul 2020 – Dec 2024) Ran the Cebu subsidiary: headcount planning, training, hiring, evaluation, and management of 8 teams / 35 engineers. Grew the org about 1.5× in a year.
  • SSP / ad-server consolidation(Jul 2020 – Jan 2022) Merged two ad-server systems onto AWS and cut infrastructure spend from roughly ¥1.3M / month to about ¥300K.

Works Applications

Nov 2010 – Jul 2020

  • ERP SRE (Shanghai)(Apr 2017 – Jul 2020) Led platform improvement teams — MSA migration, Ansible IaC, SRE adoption, CI/CD improvements, and AWS architecture work for visibility and cost reduction.
  • ERP Framework(May 2014 – Mar 2017) Drove new-product concept design, large-scale foundations, SSR, UI components, and an approval framework used by 1,000+ engineers across the group.
  • DevOps / ERP EC(Nov 2010 – Apr 2014) End-to-end work on enterprise ERP EC packages — design through ops, test automation, performance, core-system integration, and a consumption-tax change program.

About me

Koji Nishiyama. Software engineer / PdM based in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Over 15 years as an IT engineer, working across Japan, Shanghai, the Philippines, and Vietnam. Today I support Japanese SaaS companies as a freelancer while building and operating personal products.

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