Taro Kawai
Maps at Apple
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolTaro Kawai is a maps and geodata specialist with over 10 years of experience shaping location services, currently responsible for Japan address data and user experience on Apple Maps in Sunnyvale. His background spans leading mapping teams and APIs at Yahoo! JAPAN and architecting map engines and cartographic design for ALPS Mapping, giving him deep expertise in both data models and production map services. Taro combines hands-on engineering (C++/Delphi roots) with product leadership, having driven experimental geolocation services and in-house agile adoption. Based in the Bay Area but rooted in Japanese mapping needs, he brings a rare blend of local cultural insight and large-scale platform experience. Outside work he applies the same precision to DIY projects—grilling, baking, brewing and furniture-making—reflecting a practical, detail-oriented approach to problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
bachelor, Education, bachelor, Education at Nagoya University
Github Skills (7)
circles8
calculator4
radius4
cycle4
openvas1
risk-assessment1
sarif1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
inuro/IchigoJam
Mar 2018 - Mar 2020
Contributions:4 PRs, 146 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 11 months
inuro/200m
Aug 2016 - Dec 2018
Contributions:41 commits, 13 PRs, 39 pushes in 2 years 4 months
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