Summary
Kent Ohashi is a Senior Product Engineer with 11 years of experience who blends hands-on engineering, architecture, and occasional engineering management to optimize both software systems and the organizations that build them. He spent eight years as Chief Architect at Opt Inc. before moving to Smartround, focusing on designing architectures informed by Conway’s Law to improve team effectiveness and product outcomes. Comfortable across functional boundaries, he favors functional languages like Clojure, Haskell, and Elixir—reflecting a taste for expressive, resilient systems—and brings multilingual sensibilities (English, French, Russian) to collaborative contexts. Based in Chiba, Japan, Kent is motivated by enabling communities and organizations to operate more efficiently and effectively through thoughtful system and organizational design. A background in law from Nagoya University gives him a unique perspective on governance and structure in technical projects.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
岐阜北高等学校
法学士, 法学士 at Nagoya University
French, German, Japanese, Chinese, フランス語, ロシア語