Soundraw
2025 ~ Present
Software Engineer at Soundraw Inc. — Tokyo, Japan (Hybrid).
Building next generation music creation tools with the help of AI. Soundraw is an AI music generator that lets creators produce original, royalty-free tracks in seconds.
- Built and maintained core web applications and APIs powering AI-driven music creation tools designed for accessible, ethical music generation.
- Built and shipped mobile APIs for AI music creation and delivery.
- Owned improvements to soundraw.io, including new genres and a smoother creation flow.
- Introduced AI agent tooling across the engineering team — led evaluation of Cursor, OpenAI, and Anthropic, bootstrapped documentation for a 5-year legacy codebase, and established agentic workflows for issue triage, risk assessment, test automation, and more.
- Championed AI adoption beyond engineering — set up the Claude team account, trained marketing, customer support, and executive leadership on MCP integrations (Stripe, Linear, Slack, and more), driving near-immediate adoption across the company.
- Optimized SEO for marketing pages by configuring a Cloudflare Worker and DNS routing to serve Framer-hosted content under the main application domain, including redirect handling from a legacy custom domain.
- Supported a $150K+ enterprise deal by engineering a pipeline that generated 20,000+ songs in one week, partnering with product and customer success to meet delivery requirements.
Stack: Cloudflare, DNS, Domain modeling, FFmpeg, Linear, Ruby on Rails, Vue, Heroku, Postgres, MongoDB, AI Agents