Hideaki Takahashi
Senior QA Automation Developer
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolHideaki Takahashi is a Senior QA Automation Developer with 11 years of engineering experience, currently driving test automation and tooling at Cerence after a long tenure at Nuance. He combines deep systems expertise across Linux, Solaris and Windows with hands-on development in Java, Python, C and JavaScript to build reliable QA frameworks and reporting platforms. Past roles include building production recommendation engines with Lucene, Hadoop-based log analysis and Cassandra-backed web APIs, giving him strong backend and big data chops uncommon in QA-focused professionals. He also brings practical ops experience—server administration, monitoring and troubleshooting—which helps bridge development and production reliability. Based in Montreal, he leverages bilingual Japanese text-processing knowledge (including legacy encodings) to solve niche localization and NLP challenges. Practical, detail-oriented and versatile, Hideaki pairs system-level thinking with pragmatic tooling to accelerate testability and observability.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
specialist, artificial intelligence, specialist, artificial intelligence at Japan Electronics CollegeBachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics at Tokyo University of Science
Japanese, English, French
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Github Skills (90)
rtsp10
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ubuntu10
streaming10
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audio10
tokenizer10
ssh-agent10
golang10
srt10
go10
webrtc10
moq10
obs-studio10
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
hideaki-t/igo-python
Apr 2015 - Sep 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 34 pushes, 12 branches in 3 years 6 months
pythonjapanesemorphologicalanalyzerigo
hideaki-t/sqlite-fts-python
Sep 2018 - Nov 2022
A Python binding of SQLite Full Text Search Tokenizer
Contributions:4 releases, 16 commits, 39 PRs in 4 years 2 months
full-text-searchpythonsqlitetokenizer
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