Shuna Maekawa (fairy-pitta)
Software Engineer & Project Manager · Singapore
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I am a software engineer and project manager at a tuition centre in Singapore. I found the joy of data wrangling at university while majoring in Environmental Studies, and I have worked half as a teacher and half as an engineer ever since. Software architecture, database design and cloud infrastructure are what I care about most — the certifications below reflect that. Through this work I want to make a difference in people's lives.
Experience
Software Engineer / Project Manager — WAO Singapore / WAO Tech (WAO Corporation group) Dec 2023 – Present
- Project manager on client and internal work: scope and schedule, requirements, estimates and proposals, and the day-to-day direction of a team of four to eight in-house engineers.
- Teach maths, English, science and introductory programming one-on-one — around half of the job.
- Lead engineer on an accounting and budgeting SaaS for an external client (Django, Vue 3, PostgreSQL, AWS) — largest contributor over 15 months. Clean Architecture / DDD backend, Feature-Sliced frontend, AWS CDK infrastructure with OIDC-based GitHub Actions deploys, Playwright E2E and visual regression tests.
- Ran the tuition centre's operations platform replacement as project manager and developer in a team of three (Hono, Drizzle, Cloudflare Workers / D1 / R2, React 19): member management, monthly invoicing with PDF generation, and email / WhatsApp messaging — replacing a manual spreadsheet workflow. Around 2,000 automated tests including contract and real-API E2E.
- Participated in an AI document-revision pipeline as an architect and reviewer for a client: OCR (Azure Document Intelligence) and an LLM (Claude on AWS Bedrock) turn scanned rules into Word files with tracked changes. Worked on test infrastructure, the storage migration and OCR accuracy evaluation.
- Implemented the tuition centre's official website: custom WordPress theme with headless CMS content, SEO and performance work, and visual regression tests.
- Designed the engineering onboarding, mentor the team through code review, and ran an internal session on agentic coding with Claude Code.
Part-time Keeper — Mandai Wildlife Group May 2022 – Apr 2023
- Husbandry and exhibit maintenance for 3,000+ stick insects in the invertebrate section.
- Population estimates, behavioural management, and ex-situ conservation research on the best environmental conditions for stick insects.
Administrative Assistant — Osaka Prefectural Government May 2020 – Jul 2020
- COVID-19 response support: translated official documents between Japanese and English and checked data integrity.
Student Research Associate — Yale-NUS Ecology Adaptation Lab Dec 2019 – Dec 2022
- Led field research on Oriental pied hornbills: data collection, vocalisation classification, and individual identification from facial features using pattern recognition.
- Built a Zooniverse citizen-science workflow to test crowd-sourced identification.
- Maintained phasmid colonies and supported related data collection.
Education
Yale-NUS College — BSc (Hons), First Class Honours
Singapore · 2019 – 2023 - Major in Environmental Studies
- Minor in Mathematical, Computational & Statistical Science
- MOE Tuition Grant recipient
- Capstone study on how traffic noise along the Bukit Timah Expressway affects bird vocalisations, using autonomous recording stations in nature parks
United World College Costa Rica — International Baccalaureate Diploma
Costa Rica · 2017 – 2019 Nishiyamato Gakuen Academy — Junior and senior high school
Japan · 2013 – 2017 Awards
CIN Outstanding Volunteer, NParks
2021, 2022 Singapore Bird Race — 2nd, Novice category
2021 Singapore Bird Race — 4th, Marathon category
2023 Singapore Bird Race — 3rd, Marathon category
2024, 2025 Skills
- Languages
- Python, TypeScript, R
- Frameworks
- React, Next.js, Vue, Hono, Django
- Cloud
- AWS, Cloudflare, Vercel, Supabase
- Data
- PostgreSQL, SQLite
- Spoken
- Japanese (native), English (fluent)