Yusuke Yasuda
Managing Partner at moana partners inc.
Chiyoda, Japan
Summary
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SeniorYusuke Yasuda is a seasoned executive search leader and managing partner with over 18 years’ experience placing senior management and country-level executives for internet and high-tech companies entering or scaling in Japan. He founded moana partners to provide end-to-end recruitment and market-entry support for local, regional, and multinational technology clients, consistently delivering hires such as country directors, heads of sales, and technical lead roles. Earlier roles at CDS and a secondment to Microsoft reflect deep market intelligence, a proven track record building specialist teams, and an ability to formalize hiring processes for fast-growing online services. Unusually for a recruiter, he also contributes to open-source speech processing tooling—implementing data-prep work for text-to-speech in the popular espnet project—demonstrating hands-on technical fluency that strengthens his credibility with engineering hires. Based in Chiyoda, Tokyo, he combines practitioner-level knowledge of Japan’s talent market with practical experience helping overseas clients rapidly establish teams and operations.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
English, Japanese
Github Skills (6)
text-to-speech10
python10
data-processing10
speech-recognition9
bash8
machine-learning8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
espnet/espnet
Aug 2021 - Aug 2021
End-to-End Speech Processing Toolkit
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & ML Engineer
Back-end Developer & ML EngineerContributions:16 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Yusuke contributed to the J-KAC corpus integration within the speech processing toolkit, implementing scripts to prepare and process segments for text-to-speech tasks. They modified data preparation scripts and shell scripts related to data subsetting and evaluation. Furthermore, the user addressed whitespace and `utt2spk` issues, ensuring the proper format for the data.
speech-recognitionspeech-separationchainerspoken-language-understandingspeech-processing
TanUkkii007/wavenet
Jul 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:27 commits, 5 pushes in 1 month
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