About

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.

• Shopify 8

  Quite experienced in theme development (Liquid). I also have experience with Shopify Plus and building custom apps.

• WordPress 7

  Quite experienced — I have implemented most things a blog can do. I have not touched it much lately, so I am not fully up to date.

• JavaScript 6

  Fairly good at writing vanilla JavaScript. That said, I am not very familiar with the currently popular React or Next.js. I know a bit of React Router (formerly Remix) from building Shopify custom apps.

• AI 5

  I have been using it heavily since early 2025, but with little to compare against, I went with 5. 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

  WordPress customization is no problem at all. 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 relatively solid 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.