Tomoya Kimura
プロダクトマネージャー at ティアフォー
Shinagawa, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolTomoya Kimura is a product manager and former software engineer with five years of hands-on experience in autonomous vehicle software and R&D, now based in Shinagawa, Japan. He transitioned from engineering roles at Sony and TIER IV—where he worked deeply on Autoware.Universe build systems and ROS migration—to product leadership at ティアフォー, combining technical rigor with customer-focused roadmaps. His contributions to Autoware.Universe include refactoring to remove ROS1 packages, adjusting build/dependency layouts, and simulator-related launch changes, showing an ability to tame complex middleware and CI workflows. Trained at the University of Tokyo in intelligent machinery and information science, he brings strong academic foundations to practical system design. Colleagues would note his knack for moving low-level engineering decisions into product-level priorities, ensuring technical debt is visible and addressable. He blends a researcher’s attention to detail with a product manager’s drive to ship reliable, production-ready automotive software.
5 years of coding experience
修士, 情報理工学系研究科, 修士, 情報理工学系研究科 at 東京大学
Github Skills (5)
build-system10
ros10
package-management9
c-language8
cprogramming-language8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
autowarefoundation/autoware_universe
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:604 reviews, 127 commits, 482 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:The user, mitsudome-r, primarily contributed to the Autoware.Universe repository by adding and removing packages and modifying launch files. Their work involved substantial changes in the build system of the repository. The user also refactored the code to remove ROS1 packages and to include the appropriate COLCON_IGNORE files. Additionally, the user made modifications to the dependencies and launch files, specifically related to the simulator environment.
autowareros23d-mapcalibrationros
tier4/autoware_individual_params
Apr 2021 - Mar 2025
Contributions:7 reviews, 5 PRs, 6 pushes in 4 years
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