About
Nice to meet you! I'm Ryuya Shingaki. I have a personality that gets absorbed in anything that catches my interest, so I have many hobbies. The description people often give me — and the one that fits best in my own mind — is a highly communicative geek 😅 I stepped into this industry around the age of 25, and since November 2024 I have been working as a freelancer, walking alongside all kinds of clients as their go-to helper for everything web-related. These days I focus on supporting Shopify-based e-commerce site development. Whether it's something about Shopify or a corporate site renewal, I would be glad if you feel free to reach out.
Profile
- Name
- Ryuya Shingaki
- Date of birth
- 1987-10-14
- Trade name
- Kilarity
- Registration no.
- T8810881248898
- Established
- 2024-11-20
- Based in
- Kyoto City, Kyoto (since 2022)
- Hometown
- Yomitan Village, Okinawa
- Hobbies
- Cooking — and plenty more, explored below.
- Favorite music
- I mostly listen to rock and pop from overseas.
- Favorite manga
- I own a whole lot of manga.
- Favorite films
- I watch a lot of sci-fi and war films. For anime, I love the Ghost in the Shell series.
- Favorite novelist
- I truly love Hiroshi Mori.
Skills
A subjective 10-point self-assessment with a few words — hope it helps…
- Shopify 8
I have over five years of experience building Shopify themes from scratch (Liquid). For functionality that is hard to implement with standard Shopify, I can also handle it by building custom apps. E.g. adding warranty periods at purchase, displaying total collection inventory, and so on.
- WordPress 8
I have over ten years of experience building websites and blogs with WordPress.
- JavaScript 6
Over my ten-plus-year career I have implemented a great many web interactions — carousels, modals, accordions, and more. That said, I am not especially familiar with the currently popular libraries and frameworks such as React or Next.js, and AI-assisted coding is my main approach.
- AI 6
I have been using it heavily for work since early 2025. It is now one of my indispensable tools. I mainly use Claude Code.
- Google Apps Script 5
I have built things like daily Shopify order exports, product CSV generation, and a bot for a LINE Official Account.
- PHP 5
I understand enough to use it for WordPress customization. I have only a handful of experiences building web services on full PHP frameworks.
- Adobe 4
I can use Photoshop and Illustrator well enough for web design, but most of my career has been coding work, so my hands-on experience is limited.
- Ads 4
I have end-to-end experience with Google Ads, Facebook & Instagram ads, and LINE ads, from account setup through operation — though never with a monthly budget over one million yen.
- Figma 3
Honestly, I would hesitate to say I have mastered it. I can take a Figma file from a designer and turn it into working web code.
- Others
I have extensive experience building and supporting business infrastructure with Git, Notion, and Google Workspace.
The origin of “Kilarity”
Perhaps because I love sci-fi films and novels, I kept running into the word “chirality.” Looking it up, I found it carries surprisingly deep meanings — the handedness of molecules, mysteries of the origin of the universe — and before I knew it, the word was etched into my memory. When I went freelance, I thought, “That’s it! I’ll call my business Chirality!” — but the domain was already taken, and I wept. Still wanting something close to that sound, I forced romaji onto the Japanese reading “kirariti,” and ended up with Kilarity. I also spent days in Illustrator pushing paths around to create the logo. These days I am quite fond of it.