Hiromu Ochiai is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 13 years of software engineering and consulting experience, currently leading technical strategy at Stellar AIz and operating as a startup-focused temp-CTO through Ayanel Engineering & Consulting. He blends hands-on backend development—evidenced by meaningful open-source contributions to notable Go projects like gosseract and robust tooling for file operations—with strategy work spanning digital transformation, new business development, and generative AI opportunity building. His career spans elite consulting at McKinsey, platform and technical lead roles in healthcare and product companies, and practical product delivery from full-stack to systems integration. Based in Tokyo, he also coaches an American football team, signaling a rare mix of technical rigor, team leadership, and on-the-ground coaching that informs his people-first approach to scaling engineering organizations.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Agriculture, General, Bachelor's degree, Agriculture, General at Kyoto University
Contributions:6 releases, 69 reviews, 133 commits in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Hiromu primarily contributed to improving the `copy` project, which is written in Go. They refactored functions, added new test cases, and fixed existing tests. The user also implemented features like copying directories with symbolic links, demonstrating a focus on ensuring the project's functionality and robustness through comprehensive testing. Further development included features for setting permission controls, indicating a strong understanding of the project's needs and the Go programming language.
Go package for OCR (Optical Character Recognition), by using Tesseract C++ library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:7 releases, 21 reviews, 432 commits in 9 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Hiromu contributed to the development of the `gosseract` Go package, which provides OCR functionality using the Tesseract C++ library. Their work included implementing new functions like `Anyway`, `Info`, and `AvailableLangs`, expanding the library's capabilities. Furthermore, they refactored method names and introduced a "Servant" structure to encapsulate features like version information and language availability. Finally, the user enhanced the code by integrating with the underlying operating system and adding code comments.
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