Satoshi Kataoka
Co-Founder And CTO at Vanka AI
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolSatoshi Kataoka is a seasoned software leader and researcher with 16 years of experience bridging AI, robotics and mobile systems. He is a Visiting Researcher at The University of Tokyo while co-founding and leading a stealth AI startup in Palo Alto, blending academic rigor with product-focused entrepreneurship. As a former Staff Software Engineer and tech lead at Google Brain, he co-proposed the "Masters of Tool Use" moonshot, led high-speed ML robotics work (FluxWorks), and contributed to TensorFlow mobile and Android core features. His hands-on background spans real-time control, bi-manual robotic dexterity, low-latency systems, and mobile ML—plus open-source Android contributions such as an AOSP sample spell-checker service—showing an uncommon mix of research depth and production engineering. He holds advanced degrees from The University of Tokyo and consistently ships both research prototypes and production-grade software.
16 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
University of Tokyo
English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
aosp-mirror/platform_development
Oct 2011 - Apr 2012
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:11 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Satoshi primarily contributed to the development of a sample spell checker service and a corresponding client application within the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). The commits demonstrate the creation of core service components, settings activities, and fragments for the spell checker. They also created a client application that utilizes the spell checker service, showcasing the ability to integrate and test the service's functionalities, including both standard and sentence-level spell checking capabilities.
satok16/btboost
Jul 2017 - Jun 2019
Contributions:201 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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