Hiromu Yakura
CTO at Blucor (BlancAI)
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHiromu Yakura is a research-driven engineering leader and CTO with 15 years of experience building production AI systems that ship and scale. As co‑founder of BlancAI he architected real‑time voice→LLM pipelines, evaluation frameworks for accuracy/latency/fairness, and weekly production iterations tied to recruiter workflows. His background spans top-tier research (30+ peer‑reviewed papers, ~3,000 citations) and rare dual PhD fellowships from Google and Microsoft, plus JSPS funding and over $600k in grants as PI. He pairs deep systems chops—starting as a Linux kernel contributor at 13—with HCI and ML expertise to deliver dependable, measurable hiring signals. Based in San Francisco and currently a Research Fellow at Anthropic and a Max Planck postdoc alum, he’s equally comfortable leading infra, model governance, and customer‑facing productization. Notably, he combines academic rigor with weekly shipping cadence, turning recruiter interviews into automations that materially reduce time‑to‑hire.
16 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Nada Senior High SchoolPostdoctoral Fellow, Postdoctoral Fellow at Max Planck SocietyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, ENGINEERING, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, ENGINEERING at University of Tsukuba
Github Skills (40)
language-model10
flask-restful10
api-framework10
marshmallow10
artificial-intelligence9
pytorch9
python9
voice-conversion9
flask-extensions9
api9
api-documentation9
flask9
rest-api9
flask-api9
sequence-to-sequence8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
hiromu/gis-h3-income
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:5 commits, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years
hiromu/arrow-judge-web
Feb 2013 - Apr 2020
Arrow Judge is open source online judge system.
Contributions:94 commits, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 7 years 3 months
online-judgearrowjudge-systemonline-judge-systemnodejs
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