Kenichi Nakamura
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
Kenichi Nakamura is an embedded systems leader and entrepreneur with over two decades of hands-on experience building and standardizing GNU/Linux, real-time OS, and robotics technologies. He founded Upwind Technology to develop GNU toolchain support and an energy-saving RTOS (UTOS), and serves as Director and Chairman of the Platform Research Group at the Japan Embedded Systems Association driving industry-wide standardization and research. A certified Red Hat engineer and CERT/CC secure-coding graduate, he brings deep low-level expertise (kernel, drivers, toolchains) paired with international standards work (ISO C++ WG, OMG robotics HAL). He has also taught embedded Linux and mechatronics at multiple universities, bridging academic instruction with practical product and standards delivery. Notably, his career blends government/space project experience (JAXA) and defense systems development with a sustained commitment to open-source ecosystems and energy-efficient embedded design.
7 years of coding experience
Github Skills (16)
actuator10
sensor10
hal9
api8
embedded8
iot5
genome4
bioinformatics4
sequence4
arduino4
genomics3
openembedded3
xilinx2
linux1
linux-kernel1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
openel/openel
Jun 2018 - Aug 2022
OpenEL implemented in C. OpenEL(Open Embedded Library) is a unified API(Application Programming Interface) for actuators and sensors. The specifications and implementation have been developed by JASA(Japan Embedded Systems Technology Association) since 2011.
Contributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 18 commits in 4 years 3 months
apiassociationsensorshardware-abstraction-layerapi-application
openel/openel.github.io
Oct 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:1 PR, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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