Summary
Yamaura Kiyoto is a founder and former marketer-turned-developer with 11 years of experience building products and teaching programming from Chiyoda, Japan. After pivoting from marketing at Livesense to web development and product management, he launched Dokugaku Engineer in 2019 to help career changers learn to code. His Udemy courses have reached about 60,000 students and his own platform serves over 1,500 active learners, reflecting a strong focus on scalable education rather than pure open-source presence. He combines product intuition from his marketing roots with hands-on engineering and curriculum design to lower barriers for beginner programmers. Kiyoto holds advanced degrees in environmental studies and agricultural engineering from Kyoto University, an atypical academic path that informs his pragmatic, interdisciplinary approach to tech education.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Environmental Studies, Master's degree, Environmental Studies at Kyoto University