Takafumi Kanda
Engineering Manager at PowerX, Inc.
Chiyoda, Japan
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Top SchoolTakafumi Kanda is an engineering manager and seasoned software engineer with 11+ years of hands-on experience building embedded systems, IVI telematics, and Android applications. He has led cross-border teams and launches at Nissan—working with France and India—and stayed onsite in India to build and coordinate the Android app efforts for NissanConnect. Skilled in both low-level vehicle data integration (CAN, Bluetooth, USB) and modern mobile UX, he’s contributed to high-profile open-source conference apps (DroidKaigi) improving dark theme support, UI interactions and debugging tooling. At PowerX he progressed from software engineer to engineering manager, blending technical ownership with people leadership. Trained in computer vision at Tokyo Institute of Technology, he brings a systems-minded approach that connects vehicle telematics data to polished mobile experiences.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Vision, Computer Vision at Tokyo Institute of Technology
English, Japanese
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Github Skills (28)
kotlin10
darktheme10
fdroid10
android-gui10
ui-components10
ui-customization10
android-debug10
android-sdk10
theme-ui10
ui-design10
android-components10
java10
custom-ui10
javas10
uid10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
DroidKaigi/conference-app-2019
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
The Official Conference App for DroidKaigi 2019 Tokyo
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:27 commits, 7 PRs, 43 comments in 14 days
Contributions summary:Takafumi primarily contributed to the Android application for the DroidKaigi 2019 conference. Their work involved modifying the UI components, specifically the `FilterChip` view, adding features like dynamic status bar color changes, implementing on-checked change listeners, and toggling animations. They also worked on fixing sessions item decorations and refactoring existing code to enhance efficiency.
androiddroidkaigikotliniosflutter
DroidKaigi/conference-app-2022
Sep 2022 - Sep 2022
The Official Conference App for DroidKaigi 2022
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:12 commits, 4 PRs, 4 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Takafumi primarily focused on enhancing the DroidKaigi 2022 conference app's Android implementation, as demonstrated by their contributions across multiple files. Their work included setting up EditorConfig properties for code formatting, updating the app's drawer navigation based on window size, and modifying sessions-related UI elements by adding a pinch zoom feature. They also made modifications to core components, as well as tests.
kotlin-multiplatformandroiddroidkaigiandroid-appkotlin
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