Hal Seki
Head Of Public Policy at The City of Kobe
Shibuya, Japan
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Top SchoolHal Seki is a civic tech and geospatial technology leader with over two decades of hands-on experience building location-based systems and driving digital transformation across government and industry. He founded Code for Japan and leads HackCamp and Georepublic/Geolonia, blending product development, system consulting, and community building to scale civic innovation nationwide. Since 2021 he has shaped national policy as a Senior Expert at Japan’s Digital Agency while advising multiple cities and prefectures as a DX fellow and CIO advisor, demonstrating rare fluency between technical implementation and public governance. Hal’s career traces back to early mobile and web engineering roles, and a formative crowdsourced disaster-response project (Sinsai.info) that pivoted him into social entrepreneurship. Known for organizing hackathons that catalyze open innovation, he combines practical engineering chops with a talent for mobilizing volunteers and institutions toward civic impact.
16 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Tokyo Gakugei University
English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github contributions (1)
eiel/geohex-gem
Nov 2009 - Apr 2010
Contributions:28 commits in 5 months
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