Tatsuo Nomura
Founder at INGIQ
Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolTatsuo Nomura is a product and engineering leader turned founder with 13 years of experience building hit augmented-reality mobile games and location-based experiences. As the creator and executive director behind Pokémon GO, Pikmin Bloom, and Monster Hunter Now, he blends deep technical roots from Google Maps engineering with product leadership at Niantic to ship globally scaled, playful experiences. He founded INGIQ in Singapore and continues to advise Niantic, demonstrating a shift from hands-on engineering to strategic product and company-building. His background spans computer science and architecture, a combination that surfaces in thoughtful design-driven game systems and real-world spatial experiences. An early innovator of playful Google Maps experiments (8‑bit, Treasure Mode, Pokemon Challenge), he’s known for turning exploratory prototypes into mass-market products.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Architecture, Bachelor of Arts - BA Architecture at Kyoto University of Art & DesignMaster of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at Tokyo Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Shinshu University
English, Japanese, Chinese
Github Skills (57)
python10
jupyter10
data-science10
machine-learning10
fastai10
deep-learning10
lldb9
browser9
windows9
android9
gdb9
react9
flutter9
dart8
macos8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
nomtats/gdbserver-stub
Sep 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:20 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 23 days
nomtats/code-debug
Aug 2020 - Feb 2024
Native debugging for VSCode
Contributions:5 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 5 months
vscodevscode-extensiondebuggingdebugdebugger
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