Yusuke Ando is a seasoned technology leader and educator with 17 years of experience building web platforms, developer communities, and partner integrations across Japan and APAC. He has led distributed solutions engineering teams at Meta and now drives product and AI strategy as CTO while holding associate professor roles, blending academic teaching with hands-on industry execution. A prolific community organizer and speaker, he founded major PHP events in Japan, delivered 40+ presentations in a year, and authored several CakePHP books and the CandyCane Redmine port. Technically fluent in PHP, Ruby, JavaScript, Chef and AWS, he pairs infrastructure and application expertise with a knack for scaling developer ecosystems and partner success. Less obvious: he routinely runs full-day, school-style workshops and has a long track record of turning conference material into enduring online learning assets.
17 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Human Relations, Social, Bachelor of Human Relations, Social at 和光大学
Contributions:1 PR, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 6 months
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