Yoshinori N is an associate with 11 years of experience bridging investment banking and technology, specializing in M&A, IPOs, and equity/debt offerings for financial institutions and FinTech startups in Japan. A Columbia MBA and Keio economics grad who also studied music business at Berklee, he combines rigorous transaction execution with creative thinking and an ear for product and user experience. Previously an investment banking associate at SMBC Nikko, he now works at McKinsey and contributes to the arts as a music creator at Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre. An active open-source contributor in his spare time, he has made full-stack and front-end improvements to notable projects such as Hexo and MDN Web Docs, showing a hands-on ability to refactor legacy code and improve UX. This mix of deal-making, technical fluency, and artistic involvement gives him a rare cross-disciplinary perspective on fintech product and corporate strategy.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Columbia Business School
Master of Arts - MA, Music Business, Remote attendance under pandemic, Master of Arts - MA, Music Business, Remote attendance under pandemic at Berklee College of Music
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Economics, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Economics at Keio University
A fast, simple & powerful blog framework, powered by Node.js.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:13 releases, 109 reviews, 65 commits in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Yoshinori primarily refactored and updated test code within the Hexo framework, converting `var` declarations to `let/const` and migrating URLs to HTTPS. They also fixed a generator error and updated dependencies. Furthermore, the user modified tag helpers and the open graph implementation, along with code related to asset processing and permalinks, indicative of involvement across both front-end and back-end aspects of the project.
A great looking and easy-to-use photo-management-system you can run on your server, to manage and share photos.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:7 commits, 7 PRs, 5 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Yoshinori contributed to Lychee, a photo management system, by implementing several features and addressing bugs. They focused on database migrations, adding checks for existing tables during rollback and introducing a new option for controlling the visibility of the share button. They also implemented cache busting for JavaScript and CSS files and fixed an issue related to RSS feed display. These changes spanned both backend and frontend aspects of the application.
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.