Summary
Kazuyuki Shudo is a seasoned researcher-practitioner in system and distributed software with over a decade of experience delivering peer-to-peer and system-level tooling from academia to industry. As Project Manager for IPA’s MITOU programs and a professor at Kyoto University, he bridges research, education, and national technology initiatives while advising industry through roles at GMO and a seed VC. His work includes founding open-source projects like Overlay Weaver and shuJIT and pioneering systems such as a Java thread-migration platform and a high-performance E2 cipher implementation, showing a blend of deep systems design and practical engineering. He has a strong publication record as first author on topics from overlay toolkits to asynchronous VM migration, reflecting sustained leadership in decentralized systems research. Notably, his career threads academic rigor with product-minded mentorship—mentoring founders and guiding national R&D programs—so he routinely translates experimental prototypes into deployable tools and policy-informing outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at Waseda University