Summary
Kei Shirakizawa is a seasoned IIoT software engineer with 10 years of hands-on experience spanning field-level protocol bridging, embedded systems, and cloud-native applications. Based in Copenhagen, he has driven end-to-end projects from prototyping to product release—building gateways that unify Z-Wave, Bluetooth, Zigbee, Matter and MQTT, and translating industrial protocols like Modbus, S7 and OPC-UA into interoperable systems. A co-founder and former founder-in-residence, Kei blends product-minded entrepreneurship with rigorous engineering practices, championing TDD, Agile, DevOps and CI/CD to streamline team delivery. His background includes GMP-focused automation for pharma and academic work in information science, giving him a rare mix of regulatory awareness and formal analytical training. Proficient with Git and embedded toolchains, he accelerates collaboration across hardware-software boundaries while shipping robust, auditable industrial solutions.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Information Science, Master of Science - MS, Information Science at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Computer Science, Computer Science at Leopold-Franzens Universität Innsbruck