Sunagawa Hiroki
Director at Sandbox Factory
Kobe, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolSunagawa Hiroki is a director, founder, and hands-on coach who blends service design, data-driven DX, and ICT to transform organizations and enable Smart City initiatives. He leads Ex-Kobe LLC and serves as Visiting Associate Professor at Kobe University while driving civic technology and digital strategy work at Code for Japan and Sandbox Factory. With a foundation in electrical engineering and EDA from Kyoto University and product/UX experience including co-founding an IoT startup, he bridges hardware, software, and service design across public and private sectors. His career includes driving employee-experience improvements at the City of Kobe and delivering avionics and IFE hardware engineering at Panasonic, giving him rare cross-domain operational insight. Known for translating strategic vision into practical workshops, education programs, and DX implementations, he focuses on unlocking individual and organizational potential. Based in Kobe, he combines academic rigor with startup grit to make civic and SME innovation tangible.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
International Design Business Management, International Design Business Management at Aalto UniversityMaster, Communications and Computer Engineering, Master, Communications and Computer Engineering at Kyoto University
English, Japanese
Github Skills (1)
javascript1
Github contributions (5)
hiroolt/JP-gds-design-principles
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
hiroolt/test-pages
Jul 2022 - Aug 2023
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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