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

Authored by Ken Wagatsuma - Software Engineer based in the UK. Passionate about managing complex production applications that solve real-world problems.