I've been working at a Payment Service Provider (PSP) in Japan 🇯🇵 as a software engineer for over 10 years. Beyond hands-on engineering, I founded and led an engineering team dedicated to mentoring and growing junior engineers, serving as Engineering Manager for two years.
I'm now a solo researcher dedicated full-time to AI-driven development at the same PSP — pursuing two frontiers:
- Replacing what once took a full team with AI-assisted workflows to halve the cost of building payment systems.
- Exploring LLM-native payment architectures where the model itself makes the judgment call.
I write about observability, resiliency, AI-driven development, and related topics:
- Elasticsearch
- Spring Boot, Java
- Claude
- Rust
- Email: contact@programacho.com



