talks

2025-04-28

Explore Ken Wagatsuma's public presentations, meetup talks, and insightful company blog posts, showcasing expertise in GraphQL, frontend architecture, and real-time systems.

🎤 Conferences

GraphQL Asia 2019

  • Date: April 13, 2019
  • Topic: GraphQL implementation and best practices
Resource Link
📊 Slides GraphQL Presentation
📖 Blog Post Conference Reflection

👥 Meetups

Date Event Topic Resources
May 31, 2023 Frog UK Software Engineering Career Talk Career development in software engineering 📅 Event
Aug 19, 2019 Cookpad Summer Internship 2019 API design and development 📊 Slides | 📖 Blog
Nov 13, 2018 Tokyo Rails Meetup Frontend re-architecture of a decade-old Rails app 📊 Slides | 🎥 Recording
Oct 3, 2018 LOB Tech Night Management interface optimization 📅 Event
Feb 10, 2018 Cookpad Tech Conf 2018 Ad delivery system optimization (Lightning Talk) 📊 Slides | 📅 Event
Nov 7, 2015 Node Tokyo Gakuen 2015 Hacking Atom with Node.js (Lightning Talk) 📊 Slides | 📅 Event

📝 Company Blogs

🇬🇧 Cookpad UK

Date Title Link
Jun 29, 2021 Managing Kafka with Strimzi: Part 1 📖 Read
Aug 23, 2021 Managing Kafka with Strimzi: Part 2 — Implementation 📖 Read

🇯🇵 Cookpad Japan

Date Title Link
Feb 20, 2020 DynamoDB Accelerator Use Case 📖 Read
Sep 17, 2019 Team Introduction 2019 📖 Read
Apr 23, 2019 GraphQL Asia 2019 Conference Talk 📖 Read
Feb 12, 2019 Implementing Prebid.js 📖 Read
Oct 18, 2018 Building Realtime Logging Platform 📖 Read
Jun 18, 2018 Implementing Header Bidding 📖 Read

🎧 Podcast Appearances

Vancouver Engineers Podcast

Date Episode Topic Link
Mar 28, 2022 #71 Transitioning to a Senior SRE Role in London 🎧 Listen
Oct 19, 2021 #48 Is the UK a Comfortable Country for Engineers to Live In? 🎧 Listen

The Sociology of Outliers

Date Episode Topic Link
Oct 16, 2024 #46 Discussing Parenting Challenges 🎧 Listen
Jan 29, 2024 #35 Discussing "Diversity" with Ken in London 🎧 Listen
Aug 7, 2023 #11 Studying Sociology and Working as a Software Engineer 🎧 Listen

Programmer. Generalist. Open-minded amateur.

Ken Wagatsuma is a Site Reliability Engineer based in the UK. He is passionate about managing complex production applications that solve real-world problems. Keen on Performance Engineering and Databases.