Katz Yamada

Katz Yamada has over 27 years of work experience in software engineering. Katz's most recent role was as a Staff Software Engineer at Woven by Toyota, starting from January 2019. Before that, Katz worked at Qualcomm for 6 years as a Staff Software Engineer from January 2013 to December 2018. Katz also served as a Senior Software Engineer at Motorola Mobility (a Lenovo Company) for 13 years from May 1999 to December 2012. Katz began their career at Omron Software, where they held the position of Senior Software Engineer for 7 years from April 1992 to April 1999.

Katz Yamada earned a Bachelor's degree in Computer Chemistry from Kyoto University, where they attended from 1988 to 1992. In terms of additional certifications, they obtained the Financial Planner certification from Japan FP kyoukai in October 2020. Katz also completed several online courses, including the "Programming with Google Go Specialization" from Coursera, obtained in May 2023, and the "Agile with Atlassian Jira" course, obtained in April 2019. Additionally, they obtained certifications in "Graph Search, Shortest Paths, and Data Structures" and "Divide and Conquer, Sorting and Searching, and Randomized Algorithms" from Coursera in April 2017 and March 2017, respectively. Katz Yamada also pursued a program in System Programming at UCSC Silicon Valley Extension from 2017 to 2019, though they did not obtain a degree from there.