Summary
Rikuo Hasegawa is a software engineer based in Tokyo with 11 years of experience spanning research and industry, currently building products at Spicescode Inc. His background blends practical systems and ML tooling work at Mercari with academic research roles at UCL and Kyoto University, reflecting strong ties between production engineering and programming-language/theoretical research. He has hands-on VR and interactive systems experience from early roles at COLOPL and MoguraVR, showing an ability to ship immersive applications as well as backend infrastructure. Comfortable moving between research and product teams, he has collaborated with the Alan Turing Institute and contributed to SysML tooling for ML workflows. Outside of work he publishes under sp4ghet and maintains an online presence that suggests a curious, self-driven engineer who “likes computers” in multiple domains.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
1-3, 1-3 at Tokyo Metropolitan Kokusai High School
9, 9 at Plymouth Highschool
UPCSE, Math & Physics, 1, UPCSE, Math & Physics, 1 at University College London
English, Japanese