Atsushi Kato
Assistant Team Manager at Hitachi Channel Solutions, Corp.
Japan
Summary
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SeniorAtsushi Kato is an experienced engineering leader with 17 years in product and R&D, spanning UNIX-based operating systems, firmware for HDDs, and banking automation hardware and security solutions. He has progressed from hands-on R&D and OCR work to international sales engineering and product planning for card readers, bill validators, and biometric devices across Latin, South and East Asia. Currently an Assistant Team Manager at Hitachi Channel Solutions, he blends technical depth with customer-facing strategy and has repeatedly moved between low-level firmware and higher-level product lifecycle roles. His background includes academic research at The University of Tokyo on file/directory management for UNIX distributions, reflecting a strong foundation in systems design. Not obvious from titles alone, he combines logistics optimization experience from government research with practical productization skills, making him adept at translating complex technical requirements into deployable banking solutions. Based in Japan, he brings cross-cultural sales experience and a long track record of shipping reliable embedded and application software.
17 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Japanese, English
Github Skills (77)
expressjs10
http-session10
database9
dbi9
http9
rest-api9
plugin9
mysql-server9
mysql9
user-agent9
controlled9
nodejs9
fiber8
relational-databases8
sql8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
edocode/goper
Jan 2017 - Feb 2022
Schema generation utilities for go
Contributions:4 PRs, 14 pushes in 5 years 1 month
golangcode-generationjson-schemageneratorschema-generation
ktat/photoclove
Jan 2023 - Aug 2025
Photo manager
Contributions:25 PRs, 182 pushes, 20 branches in 2 years 7 months
photographyphotophoto-manager
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