Takuya Nishimoto
Technical Advisor at SomniQ, Inc.
Hiroshima, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolTakuya Nishimoto is a technical advisor and engineer with 16 years of experience applying signal processing, speech dialogue, and accessibility expertise to real-world products and research. He founded Shuaruta Inc. after a decade as a university researcher and has driven development of Japanese NVDA screen reader support—overseeing regular releases used by hundreds daily—and contributed core improvements in Python and C++ for IME, speech, and braille. At SomniQ he spent eight years building speech applications that analyze and visualize human empathy, while mentoring teams and hardening Ruby on Rails projects for security and accessibility at Tamema. He serves on accessibility working groups and as a director of a nonprofit training specialists for developmental disabilities, blending hands-on engineering with community-focused advocacy. Holding a PhD in engineering from Waseda, he combines academic rigor with product-facing delivery and a rare focus on assistive tech that bridges research, open source, and commercial development.
16 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Ph. D., Engineering, Ph. D., Engineering at Waseda University
Github Skills (48)
accessibility10
reader10
windows10
openframeworks10
wpf10
nvda10
screen-reader10
microsoft9
remote-access9
audio9
computer-vision9
camp8
emscripten8
hosting8
android8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
pyconhiro/pyconhiro.github.io
Aug 2015 - Oct 2018
Contributions:79 commits, 1 PR, 76 pushes in 3 years 2 months
nishimotz/nvda
Jul 2016 - Jun 2019
NVDA, the free and open source Screen Reader for Microsoft Windows
Contributions:62 pushes, 18 branches in 2 years 11 months
windowsnvdascreen-readerreaderwpf
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