Yoshitake Kobayashi
General Manager at Civil Infrastructure Platform
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolYoshitake Kobayashi is a seasoned technology executive and engineer with 14 years in software leadership and a long academic and research background culminating in a Ph.D. He currently serves as General Manager at Toshiba Corporation after leading corporate software engineering, open source technology, and R&D teams within the company. A founding member and Technical Steering Committee chair of the Civil Infrastructure Platform, he blends deep expertise in operating systems, embedded and distributed systems with practical stewardship of open source ecosystems. Based in Tokyo, he pairs hands-on technical roots—from systems administration and university research to industrial software development—with strategic leadership driving cross-organizational software initiatives. Notably, his career spans both academia and industry, giving him a rare perspective on bridging research-grade systems thinking into large-scale commercial products.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Ph.D. at The University of Electro-Communications
Github Skills (59)
meta-layer10
commons10
bitbake10
meta10
recipe10
debian9
embedded-linux9
debian-linux9
build-environment9
raspberry8
u-boot8
linux8
linux-kernel7
kernel7
forum7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ystk/debian-lrzsz
Apr 2015 - Feb 2022
Contributions:2 pushes, 6 branches in 6 years 10 months
ystk/debian-flac
Oct 2017 - Sep 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 7 branches in 5 years 11 months
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