Yasuaki Honda
Open Source Software Developer at Sony Global Manufacturing and Operations
Chiba Prefecture, Japan
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Top SchoolYasuaki Honda is an open source software developer and Principal Engineer with 14 years' experience specializing in product security for connected electronics, primarily within Sony Group. He led the introduction of a Security Development Lifecycle, built a security engineering organization, and helped establish Sony PSIRT and incident response practices, advising senior leadership on governance for product security across consumer and professional lines. In parallel he remains an active committer to the Maxima computer algebra system and maintains the "Maxima on Android" app, blending deep security expertise with hands-on open-source development. Trained in concurrency and object‑oriented programming at Tokyo Institute of Technology, he brings a rare mix of formal software foundations, practical security testing (including penetration testing), and corporate governance experience. Notably, he retained operational technical roles after retirement from general management, signaling a continued appetite for hands-on engineering and advisory work.
14 years of coding experience
Master of Information Science, Concurrency and object-oriented programming, Master of Information Science, Concurrency and object-oriented programming at Tokyo Institute of Technology
Chinese
Github Skills (21)
cas10
maths10
android-studio10
descendant10
maxima9
computer-algebra-system9
mathematics9
common-lisp9
android9
mirror9
lisp9
math7
science6
julia6
python6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
YasuakiHonda/Maxima-on-Android-AS
Feb 2017 - Oct 2019
Maxima on Android imported to Android Studio
Contributions:26 commits, 2 PRs, 16 pushes in 2 years 8 months
androidandroid-studio
YasuakiHonda/Maxima-on-Android
Dec 2012 - Feb 2017
Maxima, the descendant of Macsyma computer algebra system (CAS), ported to Android
Contributions:89 commits, 4 pushes, 2 tags in 4 years 2 months
androidcomputer-algebra-systemdescendant
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