Kevin Ta
Applications Engineer
Chiyoda, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Ta is an Applications Engineer with 12 years of experience blending interaction design and software engineering to build playful, tangible user experiences and robust enterprise systems. Based in Chiyoda, Japan, he has shipped order management and RESTful APIs at Rakuten using C#, ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework Core, and Azure while drawing on a research background in HCI, computer vision, AR, electronics, and physical prototyping from his University of Calgary MSc. Comfortable bridging designers and engineers, he’s delivered projects ranging from AR toys and physical games to remote collaboration tools and information visualizations. Kevin’s teaching and cross-disciplinary collaboration experience helps him translate technical constraints into usable designs, and he brings a creative, experimental mindset—plus a fondness for puns—to pragmatic system architecture and product development.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's of Science, Master's of Science at University of Calgary
Github Skills (32)
travis9
travis-ci9
browsable9
unity3d9
3d-models8
openscad8
opengl7
3d-graphics7
linux7
cad7
3d-printing7
macos6
3d6
windows6
json6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kevinta893/qmk_firmware
Mar 2020 - Apr 2024
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
Contributions:8 PRs, 29 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 1 month
rp2040nrf52840firmwareavratmel
kevinta893/air-quality-monitor
Sep 2018 - May 2021
A wifi device that tracks air quality and other atmospheric measurements.
Contributions:2 PRs, 19 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 7 months
atmosphericmeasurementsandroidair-qualityair
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