Tomoto Washio
Chief Engineer, Software R&D at Hitachi
Yokohama, Japan
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Top SchoolTomoto Washio is a veteran software architect and engineering leader with over 20 years in industry and 35+ years of programming experience, currently driving software R&D and modern C++ adoption at Hitachi's energy management initiatives. He excels at managing large-scale, geo-distributed product architectures—from RDBMS and high-performance middleware to IoT and datacenter management—while blending rigorous OO design (a Robert C. Martin enthusiast) with agile practices and hands-on coding across 20+ languages. Known for fostering cross-cultural, multi-site teams, he pairs UX-certified design skills and award-winning product delivery with pragmatic hacker creativity, evidenced by his influential Kinect depth-sensing contributions to the OpenNI2 project. He also mentors and teaches, serving academia and industry alike, and brings an unusual philosophical lens (phenomenology) to human-centered engineering and communication.
14 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Master of Engineering, Electronic Engineering at Kyoto UniversityExchange Visiting Scholar (on leave from Hitachi), Computer Science, Exchange Visiting Scholar (on leave from Hitachi), Computer Science at Stanford University
Japanese, English, Spanish, Russian
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Github Skills (4)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
OpenNI/OpenNI2
Dec 2012 - May 2014
OpenNI2
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Tomoto primarily worked on the OpenNI2 project, focusing on the integration of depth-to-image registration for the Kinect driver. Their commits include implementing and optimizing the `copyDepthPixelsWithImageRegistration` function, which involved adapting existing code to utilize the `NuiImageGetColorPixelCoordinateFrameFromDepthPixelFrameAtResolution` and improving performance. They also addressed a horizontal drifting issue and made further optimizations to improve the speed of depth pixel processing.
deep-learningpytorchopenni2computer-vision
tomoto/Arduino_Tomoto_HM330X
Aug 2020 - Jul 2021
Arduino library for HM330X dust sensor
Contributions:2 releases, 9 commits, 2 PRs in 10 months
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