Hiro Yamashita
テクニカルスタッフ at 九州大学
Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolHiro Yamashita is a seasoned technical staff and business strategist with over 25 years of experience spanning consumer electronics, telecommunications, and R&D management. He has led product planning, corporate strategy, and software/hardware engineering efforts at Panasonic and research organizations, bridging Silicon Valley innovation with Japanese industrial execution. At Panasonic he introduced Wavelet OFDM into R&D (now part of IEEE1901 applications) and has repeatedly translated advanced communications technologies into commercial products. More recently he has supported academia and public-sector innovation as a coordinator and researcher, now working at Kyushu University. Trained in information technology and conversant in applied chemistry and biophysics, he also contributes to the Japanese LaTeX (pLaTeX) community, reflecting a blend of technical depth and practical tooling interests. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic strategy that aligns engineering detail with business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Information Technology, Bachelor, Information Technology at Kyushu University
Github Skills (102)
tikz10
cjk10
duolingo10
graphic10
mailing10
latex10
fonts10
draw10
graph10
kernel10
dvi10
pgf10
ghostscript10
tex10
portable9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
texjporg/historical-ptex
Aug 2019 - Feb 2025
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
aminophen/chemobabel
Dec 2014 - Nov 2022
Contributions:3 releases, 88 commits, 66 pushes in 8 years
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