Kiko Uehara
Advisor at Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR3)
Singapore
Summary
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SeniorKiko Uehara is an advisor and investor with 17 years of experience at the intersection of AI, deep-tech, and global innovation policy, based in Singapore. He currently advises ROI-AI, leads investments at Pacific Bays Capital across defence, space, and agriculture, and partners with JETRO to foster Japan–global trade and startup ties. He has built and run high-profile tech events—one of which was keynote-addressed by the Prime Minister of Japan—and has led government-backed innovation programs in agri-tech. Previously he scaled tech product and GTM functions as CTO and Head of JAPAC for startups and ran major summits at Nikkei, blending editorial, industry convening and product delivery. Kiko bridges academic AI research and commercialisation by collaborating with top AI scientists and university professors to tackle Earth- and space-facing challenges. He mixes operator-level engineering roots in open-source Ruby ecosystems with strategic capital deployment and public-private partnership experience.
17 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (17)
ruby-wrapper5
react4
api3
perfect3
ruby2
internationalization2
translation2
javascript2
couchdb2
database2
rest-api2
rest2
localization2
distro1
web-framework1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kiko/ramaze
Apr 2009 - Mar 2011
Contributions:9 commits in 1 year 10 months
kiko/ramaze.net
Jan 2009 - Jan 2009
Contributions:6 commits in 22 days
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