Alain Saas
Industry Lecturer
Tokyo, Canada
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Top SchoolAlain Saas is an industry lecturer, founder and consultant with a decade-plus track record building AI-powered products and teams across Japan, North America and Europe. He has co-founded and led AI SaaS ventures that delivered millions of automated analytics reports, launched agentic ML solutions, and published patents and research while operating at the intersection of product, data and business. Alain blends hands-on engineering experience—from embedded IoT smartwatch apps to cloud-scale ML—and product leadership at companies like Mercari, SoftBank and Merlin BI, helping enterprises adopt RAG, search and recommendation systems. A frequent speaker at Davos, Zhongguancun and Tencent forums, he advises startups to Fortune 500s on AI strategy and growth, and curates original writing about Product, AI and Asia. Less obvious: he splits his work between Tokyo and North America while actively tracking China’s technology trajectory, giving him a rare, tri-regional perspective on how AI is reshaping markets.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
General Management, General Management at The Open UniversityMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC)Software Engineering, Software Engineering at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
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Github Skills (9)
javascript10
web-bluetooth10
smartwatch10
sys9
iot-devkit9
embedded9
iot9
espruino8
ui-design7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
espruino/BangleApps
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
Bangle.js App Loader (and Apps)
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:90 commits, 13 PRs, 2 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Alain primarily contributed to the creation of Bangle.js applications, focusing on smartwatch widgets. Their work involved implementing a battery widget with JavaScript, which displays battery level and charging status. The user also created a clock timer application and an Awair monitor application, indicating expertise in developing applications for resource-constrained environments.
javascriptloadersmartwatchwebbluetooth
alainsaas/gds
Mar 2016 - Aug 2023
Contributions:59 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 6 months
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