CHIKAHIRO TOKORO

- What I do -

Software Engineering

April. 2025	Conference Talk: Is the monolith a problem? (slide) at RubyConf India 2025 (record) at Baltic Ruby 2025 (record) (slide) at wroclove.rb 2025 (record) at Euruko 2024 - Lightning Talk
Sep. 2023	Conference Talk: Generate anonymised database with MasKING (slide) at Frankfurt Ruby 2024.09 at Ruby Unconf 2024 (record) at Euruko 2023 (record)
2019 - present	OSS Creator & Maintainer: MasKING - Command line tool for generating anonymized database for MySQL/MariaDB
Sep. 2014	Author: "Indian Silicon Valley" Bangalore's community of Engineer / 「インドのシリコンバレー」バンガロールの IT コミュニティ事情 at Rubyist Magazine
Feb. 2014	Talk: How to implement SSO in Rails / Railsにてシングルサインオンを実現する手法 at Hot startups beer bash tokyo #5 at Shibuya.rb[:20140219]
Jun. 2013	Conference Talk: Image resizing and cache Engine by Sinatra at RubyKaigi 2013 Lighitning Talk Speaker at rootconf 2014 Flash Talk

Media Appearances

Oct. 2025	Seminar: キャリア―形成セミナー（実践編） at Japanese-German Association in Tokyo / 公益財団法人日独協会 / Japanisch-Deutsche Gesellschaft
Jun. 2025	Podcast: Living Overseas - The (AI) translated version of the original japanese podcast 海外移住channel (Kaigai-ijuh channel) see also: Baltic Ruby 2025 presentation
Dec. 2024	Podcast: ドイツの今の就活事情と家探しについて at London Tech Talk
Nov. 2024	Seminar: ベルリンで暮らす、働く第２弾〜四者四様、日本人ベルリナーたちのホンネde座談会〜 at Japanese-German Association in Tokyo / 公益財団法人日独協会 / Japanisch-Deutsche Gesellschaft
Oct. 2024	Podcast: 海外移住 channel ポッドキャストの誕生秘話 at London Tech Talk
Mar. 2024	Interview: 「フリーランスから、海外で現地就職に挑戦！次に続く架け橋をつくりたい」ベルリン在住・ソフトウェアエンジニア所親宏さん at フリパラ（フリーランス協会公式note）
2024 - Present	Podcast: Founder & Main host at 海外移住channel at Living Overseas (AI translated English version)
Jan. 2024	Podcast:【エンジニア、ベルリンへ行くゲスト：ソフトウェアエンジニア所親宏さん】 #24-1 / #24-2 / #24-3 at Dialogue cafe
Nov. 2023	Seminar: Working as a Software Engineer in Berlin (Japanese) / ベルリンで暮らす、働く～ソフトウェアエンジニアの現地就職事情～ at Japanese-German Association in Tokyo / 公益財団法人日独協会 / Japanisch-Deutsche Gesellschaft
May. 2017	Interview: エンジニア&ウェブデザイナー夫婦が30代を前にした決断とは at BUSINESS INSIDER JAPAN
Aug. 2014	Author: みんな知らない"インドのシリコンバレー" バンガロールIT旅行記 (1) / (2) / (3) / (4) / (5) / (6) at Huffingtonpost Japan
Dec. 2014	Radio: インドのシリコンバレー「バンガロール」は世界に変革をもたらすか at TIME LINE -今日のニュースと考えるヒント- TOKYO FM 80.0MHz

Travel

- Asia -
🇰🇭 Cambodia, 🇮🇳 India(12), 🇮🇩 Indonesia(2), 🇯🇵 Japan(origin), 🇲🇾 Malaysia(3), 🇲🇻 Maldives(3), 🇳🇵 Nepal(3), 🇶🇦 Qatar, 🇸🇬 Singapore(3), 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka(2), 🇹🇭 Thailand(3)

- Europe -
🇦🇹 Austria(2), 🇧🇪 Belgium(2), 🇨🇿 Czech, 🇩🇰 Denmark, 🇩🇪 Germany(living), 🇬🇷 Greece, 🇭🇺 Hungary, 🇮🇹 Italy, 🇱🇻 Latvia, 🇱🇹 Lithuania, 🇱🇺 Luxembourg, 🇳🇱 Netherlands(3), 🇵🇱 Poland(5), 🇪🇸 Spain(3), 🇸🇪 Sweden, 🇨🇭 Switzerland, 🇻🇦 Vatican City

- South America -
🇵🇪 Peru

Yoga

Oct. 2024	completed Yoga Psychology Program (150 hours) at Yogapoint, India
Aug. 2023	recognized as Yoga Professional Member(YPM) by Indian Yoga Association (IYA)
Aug. 2023	certified to Certificate Course in Yoga by IYA PrCB / Yoga Certification Board (YCB)
Feb. 2020	completed Pre & Post Natal Yoga Teacher Training Course (100 hours) at Yogapoint, India
Mar. 2019	completed Yoga Teacher Training Course (200 hours) at Yogapoint, India