Arata Miyazaki is a Vice President with 16 years of experience blending investment execution, operational value creation, and technical fluency across private equity, M&A, and fund management. He has led structuring, valuation, due diligence and post-investment operating work—most notably managing development projects like Japan’s largest Ferris wheel and exiting multiple investments. Prior roles span distressed-asset disposition, bank bad-debt bulk sales advisory, derivatives product marketing, and early-stage web/system project management, bringing a rare mix of finance, operations and hands-on technology leadership. A Tokyo University of Science mathematics graduate, he pairs analytical rigor with practical program delivery, often owning both strategy and execution for turnaround and growth mandates. Unusually for a senior finance executive, he is an active open-source contributor and Haskell enthusiast who has fixed floating-point and ABI issues in GHC and contributed cross-platform GUI fixes to wxWidgets, reflecting deep low-level technical expertise. Based in Chiyoda, Japan, he combines fund formation and advisory skills with engineering-minded problem solving to drive complex, operationally grounded investment outcomes.
16 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
bachelor, Mathematics, bachelor, Mathematics at 東京理科大学 / Tokyo University of Science
Contributions:42 commits, 11 PRs, 8 comments in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Arata primarily contributed to improving the cross-platform capabilities of the wxWidgets library. Their work focused on enhancing the wxOSX implementation by correctly handling non-BMP characters in character events and ensuring proper text rendering. They updated the Scintilla component, which involves updating versions and adding new features such as override functions. Additional changes include fixing conversions for supplementary characters, and improving the codebase with additional features.
Mirror of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler. Please submit issues and patches to GHC's Gitlab instance (https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc). First time contributors are encouraged to get started with the newcomers info (https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/wikis/contributing).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:19 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Arata contributed significantly to the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) by adding tests and fixing bugs related to floating-point arithmetic and SIMD vector operations. They implemented tests for calling conventions of foreign import primitives, integer-to-float/double conversion, and IEEE 754 compliance. Additionally, the user supported auto-detection of register limits and improved documentation and code generation for AArch64 and x86 architectures. Their work primarily focused on improving the compiler's accuracy and performance.
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Arata Miyazaki - Vice President at Mirai Nihon Ventures