Summary
Ryo Yamada is a co-founder and leader with a decade of experience building hardware-software products and global partnerships to advance decentralized water reuse. At WOTA he has led product engineering, procurement and international project launches, and now runs global external relations driving policy, standards and government engagement. He blends hands-on technical curiosity—mobile, backend, .NET, AWS and container tooling—with productizing IoT, AI and big-data-enabled water systems. His background in sustainability science and early work on a social startup accelerator ground his approach at the intersection of technology, policy and social impact. A knack for turning field-tested engineering into scalable manufacturing and strategic alliances differentiates him from purely technical founders. Based in Chiyoda, Tokyo, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with a taste for discovering technologies he’s never seen before.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of Tokyo
BS, Environmental Engineering, BS, Environmental Engineering at Ritsumeikan University
English, Japanese