Daisuke Fujiwara

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Summary

Engineering leader with 20 years of experience building and scaling high-performing teams across startups and public companies. Deep technical background in web / mobile, and enterprise platforms, with proven success in both product and platform engineering. Track record of delivering impactful business results through pragmatic solutions, from early-stage product development to enterprise-scale systems. Known for driving team growth and cohesion, fostering cross-functional partnerships, and mentoring engineers at all levels. Passionate about building efficient, empowered teams that solve real customer problems.

Experience

Asana, San Francisco, CA

Senior Engineering Manager (L6) (8/2023 - present)

• Managed multiple permissions-related teams (SF and Vancouver) of around 15 engineers within the Enterprise organization.
• Revamped the Authorization team in the first three months by hiring four engineers, including L6 technical leader and senior (L5) engineers.
• Kicked off a new team in Vancouver by hiring the engineers and set the team direction by collaborating closely with cross-functional partners.
• Launched Custom Field View and Edit permissions, long-anticipated features for enterprise customers. 50% of the top 100 enterprise customers have adopted the features.
• Completed the long-standing one-year effort to migrate the permissions systems from restricted to additive.
• Promoted multiple L4 engineers to L5 by coaching them on leading a large project and handling complex technical problems.
• Mentored multiple peer L5 EMs across the Enterprise organization on topics such as succession planning, cross-functional collaboration, and identifying strengths and areas of growth of senior engineers.
• Organized “Couch Time” - a tech talk series - to lead the effort to increase cross-team knowledge share.

Composit, San Francisco, CA

CTO/Co-founder (12/2021 - 6/2023)

• Co-founded a company to develop a safety compliance SaaS product in the food and beverage industry.
• Drove product initiatives and customer research to identify the product scope and value propositions.
• Developed the core feature of OCR and rules-based engine to parse key data points from unstructured compliance documents to avoid manual entry and human errors.
• Led three engineers to deliver the initial product in three months.

PlanGrid/Autodesk, San Francisco, CA

Engineering Manager (10/2018 - 12/2021)

• Grew a brand-new product engineering team to seven direct reports (backend, frontend, mobile).
• Established engineering standards and processes for team empowerment, including delivery process, and hiring practices.
• Collaborated with product/design counterparts and engineering management peers to deliver cross-team initiatives for Autodesk Construction Cloud launch.
  • Developed a data-driven home page that personalized content based on user activity and project status.
  • Responsible for the onboarding workflow which includes generating initial projects to support enterprise-scale deployments.
  • Launched the fault-tolerant data archiving feature that collected large amounts of construction project documents.
• Actively participated in technical design discussions and performed code reviews as needed to ensure the team’s momentum.
• Led video support project from conception to first customer launch in three months.
• Completed PlanGrid-BuildingConnected integration, adopted by 50% of top customers.

Muxgram, San Francisco, CA

Member of Technical Staff - Mobile (7/2017 - 10/2018)

• Developed Muxbots, iOS app that runs third-party chatbot code in JavaScriptCore.

Nextdoor, San Francisco, CA

Engineering Manager - Mobile (10/2014 - 6/2017)

• Grew and led a team of eight iOS and Android platform engineers.
• Led major mobile initiatives for both iOS and Android.
  • Launched iOS and Android v2 app with a complete redesign of the main feed and significant performance improvements.
  • Automated localization framework to enable international expansion.
  • Revamped release automation to enable weekly app release cycles to speed up feedback and feature launches.
  • Introduced mobile engineering onboarding to scale mobile development expertise in the organization.
• Revamped mobile interview process for better alignment across the teams.
• Coordinated iOS and Android Co-ops to facilitate technical discussions and cross-team communication.
• Actively participated in the engineering blog initiative.
• Introduced bi-weekly “Share your knowledge” sessions for knowledge sharing.

Staff Software Engineer (9/2013 - 10/2014)

Senior Software Engineer (7/2011 - 9/2013)

Truveo, San Francisco, CA

Senior Software Engineer (6/2010 - 7/2011)

Syncsort Inc, Woodcliff Lake, NJ

Software Engineer (2/2005 - 6/2010)

Technical skills

• Programming: TypeScript / JavaScript, Python, Swift / Objective-C, Go
• Frameworks: React, Nest.js / Node.js, iOS, Django
• Databases: Postgres, Realm