Summary
Hikaru Sugiura is a lead software engineer based in Portland with 11 years of experience bridging software, hardware, and product for robotics, mobility, and smart home devices. A former RoboCup Junior world champion, he helped ship autonomous and personal mobility products at WHILL, including an autonomous-drive vehicle and embedded Linux/ROS systems, before accelerating smart-home deployment at HOMMA by building an IoT setup suite that cuts installation time by ~20x. He excels at system-level problem solving across embedded firmware, cloud integrations (AWS IoT), and UI-to-hardware communication, and he routinely designs in-house hardware alongside software. Practical and hands-on, Hikaru moves fluidly between prototyping and production, prioritizing intuitive interfaces so people can spend less time managing technology and more time living.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Engineering system, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Engineering system at University of Tsukuba
Japanese, English