Summary
Shimpei Takamatsu is an engineering manager with 12 years of software experience and 6+ years of client-facing, forward-deployed delivery for Japanese enterprises, currently leading MODE’s Advanced Solutions Division. He combines hands-on technical leadership in AWS, Python, TypeScript, IoT data pipelines and LLM/AI prototyping with end-to-end responsibility from discovery and architecture to production support. Comfortable bridging US-based engineering teams and native-Japanese stakeholders, he routinely scopes and delivers complex IoT/AI platform implementations for manufacturers, railways and facility managers. His background spans digital consulting, product-led startups and large SI projects, giving him both delivery rigor and product sensibility. Outside work he builds open-source LLM and developer-experience tools—like a terminal AI journaling app and NLP analysis CLIs—demonstrating his propensity to prototype systems he actually uses.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Music, Musical Creativity and the Environment, Music, Musical Creativity and the Environment at Tokyo University of the Arts
Media Creation, Media Creation at Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences
Japanese, English