Summary
Takao Kimura is a seasoned Agile coach and software engineer with over two decades of hands-on development experience and more than a decade focused on Agile transformation and Scrum leadership. As founder and representative of 合同会社カナタク, he has guided large-scale Agile adoptions across finance, telecommunications, and insurance, acting as Scrum Master, Agile Coach and PMO in both Japanese and global contexts. His early career as a programmer and systems engineer (VB/VBA, Java, Perl, Ruby, C#) informs a pragmatic approach that blends code-level empathy with organizational change. He has led system development projects from tourism search engines to internet securities platforms and has presented widely at Agile conferences while co-translating key Agile books, showing commitment to community knowledge sharing. Based in Yokohama, he is a promoter of LeSS and local Agile study groups, notable for combining project leadership with hands-on migration and process-improvement work that yields measurable delivery gains.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Yamanashi Gakuin University