Yusuke Kawasaki
Founder at KURUQS INC
Chiyoda, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolYusuke Kawasaki is a serial founder and technologist with 20 years of experience building startups and R&D organizations from Tokyo’s Chiyoda district. He founded KAWANET and co-founded THE GUILD and KURUQS after leading Media Technology Labs and serving as Chief Architect at Recruit, blending product-forward engineering with strategic investment and technical appraisal. Comfortable shifting between hands-on architecture and investor-level evaluation, he has repeatedly turned early-stage ideas into operating ventures and advised Silicon Valley-backed startups. His background includes a strong academic foundation in computer science from Chiba University and early entrepreneurial grit—starting a company as a student working on a 16KB/s connection. Known as a hacker, writer and consultant, he often bridges deep technical design with business strategy. Colleagues describe him as a founder who thinks like an engineer and invests like a technologist.
20 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Technology (M.Tech.), Information and Computer Sciences, Master of Technology (M.Tech.), Information and Computer Sciences at 千葉大学 / Chiba UniversityESL, ESL at Brandon College
Japanese, English
Github Skills (200)
datetime10
parser10
xmlhttprequest10
msgpack10
windows10
intercept10
jshint10
timing10
ruby10
http-client10
excel10
browserify10
fluentd10
encodeuricomponent10
deno10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
gitpan/Lingua-JA-Romanize-Japanese
Mar 2006 - Jan 2008
Contributions:9 commits in 1 year 10 months
kawanet/express-sed
May 2020 - Nov 2022
Express middleware to transform response body
Contributions:2 PRs, 16 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
expressjstransformexpressbodyexpress-js
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