Curriculum Vitae

Joshua Ferrer

Software Engineer / Technical Lead

josuferrer@outlook.com low-level-guy.com git.low-level-guy.com/josufh Tokyo, Japan Japanese version

Profile

Software engineer based in Tokyo, working across backend development, infrastructure, requirements definition, specification writing, and technical leadership. Experienced with .NET, C, Flutter, Linux, cloud environments, CI/CD, and internal business systems.

Owns source code quality, coding standards, infrastructure operations, and technical research for new projects, with practical experience in architecture decisions, code review, debugging, infrastructure setup, and defect prevention before release.

Experience

Nihon Kyoiku Create Co., Ltd. (株式会社日本教育クリエイト)

Software Engineer / Technical Lead, IT Solutions Business Department (ITソリューション事業部)

2024/09 - Present
  • Backend and application development for internal business systems.
  • Requirements definition with clients and specification writing.
  • Infrastructure management, cloud VM provisioning, CI/CD setup, and source control administration.
  • Code review, coding standard maintenance, technical investigation, and defect prevention before release.
  • Developed and deployed an internal approval system (稟議システム) used by more than 1,000 users.
  • Administers Gitea and Redmine environments used by a 15-person department.
  • Deployed five projects of varying size, including a 1.5-year company-wide approval system project.
  • Improved manual workflows through automation, coding standards, code review, and cloud deployment practices.

Additional Experience

Keio Plaza Hotel (京王プラザホテル) - Lobby / Customer Service

Keio Plaza Hotel (京王プラザホテル)

Lobby and customer service, Shinjuku

2023/04
  • Handled customer service in Japanese, English, Spanish, and occasional Chinese.
  • Used business Japanese and keigo (敬語) in a hotel environment.
  • Built Excel-based workflow automation as a secondary responsibility.

Selected Projects

Personal Git Server

Public repositories and project references

Ongoing
  • git.low-level-guy.com/josufh
  • Detailed project writeups will be added as selected repositories are finalized.
  • Open source activity includes reporting issues to improve .NET tutorial sample code.

Technical Skills

  • Primary: C#, .NET, ASP.NET, C
  • Application: Dart, Flutter, HTML, JavaScript / TypeScript, Node.js
  • Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL
  • Cloud: AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, Azure
  • DevOps: Gitea Actions CI/CD, Docker, Linux server administration
  • Testing: xUnit
  • Tools: Neovim / Vim, VS Code
  • Secondary: Python

Languages

  • English - professional / TOEIC 965
  • Japanese - professional / JLPT N2
  • Spanish - native
  • Catalan - native
  • Chinese - intermediate / HSK 3
  • Japanese Sign Language - beginner / JSL Grade 5

Education

Tokyo Business and Language College (東京ビジネス外語カレッジ)

IT Business (ITビジネス), Ikebukuro

2021/04 - 2023/03

Business program with IT-focused coursework.

Role Interests

Interested in software engineering, architecture, project leadership, internal systems, infrastructure, and technology research roles. Open to remote work and office-based collaboration.