Naoto Takai
Vice President Of Engineering at Money Forward, Inc.
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolNaoto Takai is a Tokyo-based engineering leader with 18 years of experience who currently serves as Vice President of Engineering at Money Forward after senior leadership roles at Cookpad and as CTO at Minnano Wedding. He blends hands-on software architecture and DevOps expertise with organizational leadership, building and scaling engineering teams and microservices platforms. A seasoned software architect and manager, he has a track record of guiding large product organizations through technology and delivery transformations. Beyond corporate roles, he founded Akasaka.rb, a well-known Tokyo developer community, reflecting his commitment to grassroots technical engagement. He also contributes to notable open-source projects like QMK firmware, having added keyboard support and maintained configurations—an indicator of his practical embedded-systems chops alongside cloud-native work. That combination of executive leadership, deep architecture experience, and active open-source participation makes him effective at translating strategic goals into reliable, developer-friendly systems.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Rikkyo University
Github Skills (18)
c-language10
atmel10
qmk-firmware10
firmware10
qmk10
c1110
c1710
avr10
iot10
sys10
atmel-studio10
embedded10
cprogramming-language10
system-configuration9
hardware9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
qmk/qmk_firmware
Apr 2019 - Mar 2021
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 9 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Naoto contributed to the QMK firmware, specializing in keyboard firmware development for various keyboard models. They added support for the Nomu30 and Choco60 keyboards by implementing the necessary rules, header, keymap, and configuration files. Further contributions include updating keyboard configurations and keymaps for the Cocoa40 and MIO keyboards. The user also updated the configuration files for the Nomu30, including updates for the Rev1 and Rev2 revisions.
rp2040firmwareavratmelkeyboard-support
takai/qmk_firmware
Jun 2018 - Mar 2021
keyboard controller firmware for Atmel AVR and ARM USB families
Contributions:76 pushes, 73 branches in 2 years 9 months
controllerfirmwareavratmelusb
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