Kenta Kaneda
Design Strategist New Business Development
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolKenta Kaneda is a bilingual design strategist and new business developer with 14 years of experience helping major Japanese companies and international startups translate user insight into viable business models and brand strategies. Based in Tokyo and Kyoto, he combines marketing training from the University of Florida with hands-on product and overseas expansion experience at DeNA and SHOWROOM, where he led alliances and localization across Asia. Since founding without invitation in 2018, he has led DX and SDG-aligned new business projects across cosmetics, housing, real estate, F&B, packaging and healthcare, pairing design thinking with measurable execution. He also supports Japanese market entry for foreign startups, tailoring UX and growth tactics for local adoption. A practical strategist who briefly deepened his craft at Parsons, he emphasizes ethical, human-centered approaches beyond pure data-driven strategy. Outside consultancy he contributes to open source projects (including TypeScript refactors in textlint) and pursues personal art projects, reflecting a blend of technical, creative and cross-cultural strengths.
14 years of coding experience
Master's degree (Dropped), Strategic Design and Management, Master's degree (Dropped), Strategic Design and Management at Parsons School of Design - The New SchoolBachelor's degree, Marketing, Bachelor's degree, Marketing at University of Florida
English, Japanese
Github Skills (10)
plugin-development10
linter10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
lint10
typescript-types10
testing9
markdown-it9
markdown9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
textlint/textlint
Oct 2019 - Apr 2020
The pluggable natural language linter for text and markdown.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 4 PRs, 19 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Kenta primarily focused on refactoring and converting the `textlint-plugin-text` plugin to TypeScript. This involved modifying core files, including the `TextProcessor` and `index.ts` files. Furthermore, the user updated the test files and fixed module exports, ensuring proper functionality and integration of the plugin. There were also several revert commits indicating iteration and refinement of the initial changes.
nlptextlintlinterlintjavascript
Kesin11/github_actions_otel_trace
Feb 2023 - Sep 2024
Contributions:2 releases, 60 PRs, 72 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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