Summary
Tomoya Hirano is a seasoned software leader and CTO with over a decade of experience building web applications, multimedia interactions, and signal-processing systems across startups and established companies. He combines hands-on expertise in Ruby, Python, C++ and client-side technologies (including AS3/Flash historically) with a strategic focus on using multimedia to improve user experience and product metrics. His career includes long tenures at Cookpad and technical leadership at 株式会社COTEN, plus roles spanning search engineering and location-based ad systems. Trained in computer music and anthropology, he brings a rare blend of technical depth and user-centered, cross-disciplinary thinking that surfaces in both architectural decisions and interaction design.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts College of Liberal Arts; Computer Music, Bachelor of Arts College of Liberal Arts; Computer Music at International Christian University
University of California, San Diego
Bachelor of Arts Faculty of Integrated Human Studies; cultural anthropology and natural anthropology, Bachelor of Arts Faculty of Integrated Human Studies; cultural anthropology and natural anthropology at Kyoto University
English, Japanese