Summary
Ippei Ukai is a bilingual (English/Japanese) software developer and Scrum Master with 14 years of experience building product-focused teams and shipping language-aware systems from Tokyo's Chiyoda ward. Trained in Computational Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh, he combines linguistic insight with pragmatic engineering to tackle full-text search, text mining, and machine translation problems. Since 2017 he has driven delivery and agile practices at atamaplus, pairing hands-on development with team coaching and continuous improvement. His background spans startups and contract work, giving him fluency in object-oriented design and cross-cultural collaboration. Notably, his early open-source and research-adjacent engagements reflect a long-standing interest in language technologies beyond typical application engineering.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Computational Linguistics, BSc (Hons), Computational Linguistics at The University of Edinburgh
Tokai High School
Kwalikum Secondary School
English, Japanese