Summary
Kaito Hanamori is a bilingual Japan Partnerships Manager at Automattic with seven years of experience bridging technical support, community education, and partnerships for the WordPress ecosystem. He progressed from Happiness Engineer and Japanese support lead to Community Education Manager, where he focused on recruiting and onboarding contributors and creating Japanese/English training content for WordPress.org. With deep academic roots in information science (ABD doctoral work and a master’s as dux), he combines rigorous technical understanding with hands-on teaching and translation experience across universities and conferences. Known for managing cross-cultural teams and producing long-form translated materials, he brings rare fluency in technical communication, community-building, and operational administration to developer-facing programs.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Information Science, completed all but dissertation, Doctor of Information Science, completed all but dissertation at Hokkaido University