Shiro Tanaka
代表取締役CEO at Freelance
Kyoto, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolShiro Tanaka is a veteran engineering executive and CEO with 11+ years of focused experience in fuel cells, lithium-ion and solid-state battery development, and materials science, currently leading Solid Quantum Systems from Kyoto. He blends deep R&D roots (PhD in fluid-electrochemical dynamics) with hands-on productization and commercialization—having driven major cost and size reductions in fuel cell stacks and introduced innovations that halved manufacturing investment and doubled performance in targeted applications. As a former R&D head at University of Cape Town and senior technical leader at Nissan and Sony, he has a track record of translating lab breakthroughs into patents, factory builds, and viable business cases. He also advises investors and startups on technology due diligence for hydrogen and battery systems, bringing uncommon cross-border experience in IP, scale-up economics, and mass-production strategy. Notably, his innovations reduced platinum usage and electrode costs while enabling novel stack designs for automotive and aerospace niches.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
M. Eng, Chemistry (Li4SiO4 for nuclear fusion reactor), M. Eng, Chemistry (Li4SiO4 for nuclear fusion reactor) at Kyoto UniversityPhD in Engineering (Fluid-electrochemical dynamics), PhD in Engineering (Fluid-electrochemical dynamics) at Tokyo Metropolitan University
Japanese, English
Github Skills (15)
emacs-package10
bibtex10
latex10
elisp10
melpa10
emacs10
tex10
emacs-lsp10
emacs-lisp10
biblatex8
typesetting8
org-mode7
react2
javascript1
minimum1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ShiroTakeda/gams-mode
Feb 2015 - Jun 2022
Contributions:19 releases, 246 commits, 4 PRs in 7 years 5 months
org-modeshieldsemacsemacs-modegams
ShiroTakeda/Japanese_SAM_for_CGE
Jan 2022 - Oct 2024
Contributions:2 releases, 25 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 9 months
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