Summary
Takao Obara is an automotive senior software engineer with 15 years’ experience based in Tokyo, currently focused on production management and systems for connected vehicles. He has led end-to-end initiatives from early-stage PoC to production—designing telematics-enabled drive recorders, AI annotation tooling, and automated kitting for production lines. Previously he drove web frontend and live-streaming R&D at DeNA, earning a Japan patent for seamless playback of chunked audio/video streams in browsers. Takao combines hands-on embedded/edge-AI engineering with production engineering and operations, bridging software, hardware, and manufacturing. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic system design that scales from prototype to assembly line.
15 years of coding experience