Atsushi Kato
Assistant Team Manager at Hitachi Channel Solutions, Corp.
Japan
Summary
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SeniorAtsushi Kato is an experienced engineering leader with 17 years in product and R&D, spanning UNIX-based operating systems, firmware for HDDs, and banking automation hardware and security solutions. He has progressed from hands-on R&D and OCR work to international sales engineering and product planning for card readers, bill validators, and biometric devices across Latin, South and East Asia. Currently an Assistant Team Manager at Hitachi Channel Solutions, he blends technical depth with customer-facing strategy and has repeatedly moved between low-level firmware and higher-level product lifecycle roles. His background includes academic research at The University of Tokyo on file/directory management for UNIX distributions, reflecting a strong foundation in systems design. Not obvious from titles alone, he combines logistics optimization experience from government research with practical productization skills, making him adept at translating complex technical requirements into deployable banking solutions. Based in Japan, he brings cross-cultural sales experience and a long track record of shipping reliable embedded and application software.
17 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Japanese, English
Github Skills (90)
dbi10
browser-detection10
session-management9
database9
mysql-client9
wiki-engine9
plugin9
mysql-server9
http-session9
sql-engine9
controlled9
management8
sql8
browser8
relational8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
edocode/goper
Jan 2017 - Feb 2022
Schema generation utilities for go
Contributions:4 PRs, 14 pushes in 5 years 1 month
golangcode-generationjson-schemageneratorschema-generation
ktat/tran
Jan 2010 - Aug 2014
Contributions:169 commits in 4 years 8 months
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