Masaya Suzuki

Masaya Suzuki, currently serving as the Head of Engineering, is a former Google employee and a founder of a YC-backed startup. His expertise lies in automating developer workflows, focusing particularly on improving developer productivity and the code review process. Suzuki introduced FlexReview as a dynamic alternative to GitHub CODEOWNERS and developed a highly customizable merge queue designed to maintain ‘green’ builds at scale. His goal is to elevate engineering productivity to Google’s standards for developers everywhere. Additionally, Suzuki’s platform supports SOC2 Type II compliance, ensuring adherence to high security and privacy standards. He advocates for smaller, incremental PRs to enhance code review efficiency and offers solutions for managing flaky tests and optimizing CI runs. His platform integrates with major CI providers such as CircleCI, Buildkite, GitHub Actions, and Jenkins, and is compatible with tools like Bazel, NX, Pants, Turborepo, and Gradle. Suzuki’s startup, founded by ex-Googlers, provides a suite of tools for managing monorepos, supports on-prem deployments, and offers real-time support over Slack.