Yuki Nakamura
Tokyo, Japan
Twelve years building native iOS and Android apps for a major Tokyo gaming company. Yuki leads everything we ship to a phone.
Yuki spent her first twelve years out of university at one of Japan's largest mobile gaming companies, working on iOS and Android titles that collectively crossed fifty million downloads. She was on the team that ported a long-running franchise to Swift in 2017 — a year-and-a-half rewrite that the company's executives openly worried about, and that finished ahead of schedule. After that she was promoted to lead the studio's mobile platform group, where she set the conventions every other team built against.
She joined Keltus in 2023 because, as she puts it, "the next ten years of interesting mobile work is going to be outside gaming." She leads every Keltus mobile project — Zavos's iOS and Android apps, the SecureVote Remote voting app, the NewsTosser reader. Her standing rule for every mobile codebase: it must build cleanly from a fresh checkout in under five minutes, no exceptions.
Yuki keeps an extensive vinyl collection — mostly Japanese jazz and 70s soul — and builds analog synthesizer modules from breadboards in her spare time. She speaks Japanese, English, and Korean.