Summary
Masataka Yabana is a Principal Project Manager based in Tokyo with over 8 years in product and project leadership, and two decades of earlier engineering experience across embedded, enterprise, and automotive systems. He specializes in delivering ASR/TTS integrations and voice UI solutions for automotive platforms, bridging developer teams and customers to turn complex requirements into production-ready features. Equally comfortable in hands-on technical work, he contributes backend C++ solutions to competitive programming repositories and holds top-tier rankings (AtCoder Red, CodeForces Red) plus multiple IOI/APIO gold medals. Known for continuously proposing process and product improvements, he blends a maker’s mindset with program-level delivery discipline to drive incremental innovation. His background spans system architecture, embedded software, and voice technology, giving him a rare mix of low-level implementation insight and high-level project orchestration. Outside of work he channels algorithmic rigor into public repos and community writing, applying contest-honed problem solving to real-world product challenges.
8 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Information System Engineering, Bachelor, Information System Engineering at 創価大学 / Soka University
Japanese, English