// THE TEAM
Adamo Lussana
CEO & Founder
🇮🇹 Milan → 🇯🇵 Osaka
Bio: Adamo left Milan for Osaka in 2006, drawn by Japanese engineering culture. Over two decades building WordPress solutions — themes, custom plugins, enterprise architectures. In 2025 he founded KooKoa with one conviction: WordPress plugins should be engineered like Japanese hardware — obsessively refined, zero bloat, maximum reliability.
Skills: Plugin Product Strategy, Enterprise WP Architecture, PHP / WP Core, SaaS Plugin Licensing, Client Technical Direction
Stack: WP Core, PHP 8.x, Plugin Architecture, REST API, MySQL, Docker / Git
Kenji Watanabe 渡辺健二
Senior Backend Engineer
🇯🇵 Osaka
Bio: Kenji engineers the backend with the patience of a craftsman. Custom database schemas, AJAX handlers, WP-CLI, REST APIs — he treats every function signature like a haiku: nothing wasted, nothing missing. Over a decade in the WordPress ecosystem, building robust server-side architectures for plugins and platforms that demand precision, performance and scale.
Skills: WP Backend Architecture, Custom Taxonomies & Meta, WP Cron & Queues, REST API Design, Multisite Engineering
Stack: PHP 8.x, WP Core, MySQL, Composer, PHPUnit, Redis, WP-CLI
Yuki Tanaka 田中由紀
Frontend & UI Engineer
🇯🇵 Kyoto → 🇯🇵 Osaka
Bio: Yuki turns backend power into interfaces people enjoy using. Specialized in vanilla JavaScript, Backbone integration and architectural CSS. She builds plugin admin UIs with an obsessive eye for UX detail — drag & drop, context menus, modal systems, responsive layouts. Compatible with every major builder out there: Divi, Elementor, Gutenberg, WooCommerce.
Skills: JavaScript Architecture, CSS Design Systems, jsTree & Backbone, Admin UI / UX, Cross-Builder Compatibility
Stack: JavaScript ES6+, CSS3 / Custom Properties, jQuery / Backbone, Vite, PHP Templates
Dowan Shin 신도완
Security & Performance Engineer
🇰🇷 Seoul → 🇯🇵 Osaka
Bio: Dowan sees attack surfaces where others see code. Started in cybersecurity before specializing in WordPress hardening. OWASP certified, with a paranoid mindset that makes him the perfect guardian. He owns security code reviews, input sanitization, RBAC enforcement, query optimization and the performance pipeline — making sure every plugin ships bulletproof and fast.
Skills: WP Security Hardening, OWASP WordPress, SQLi / XSS Prevention, Query Optimization, Performance Profiling
Stack: PHP 8.x, WP Internals, MySQL Tuning, Redis, Xdebug / k6
// OUR PLUGINS