About

Kazuaki Matsuo is an experienced Senior Software Engineer with over 8 years of experience in software development, test, and quality for mobile and web applications. He is currently working as a Senior Software Engineer, Device Automation at HeadSpin. Kazuaki is one of the active maintainers in the Appium project, a tool that helps mobile/native automation. He has also organized SeleniumConf Tokyo in 2019, which was a successful international conference in Japan. Kazuaki is passionate about providing service to get experiences, ideas, learn and build communities between people. He believes that like Cookpad, which provides experiences to learn cooking, users can get opportunities to learn/experience cooking and share their experience with others through recipes. Kazuaki is a committed open-source software (OSS) developer and is one of the core members for the Appium project. Kazuaki has experience in the native mobile world, including Android and iOS, and his main area is Test/QA/Automation. He also develops production code for server-side as well. Kazuaki is interested in challenging the distributed computing area in the technical field as well. Kazuaki has over 6 years of experience in mobile software development/automation/test engineering in international and Japan teams. He also has experience in server/network engineering (infrastructure/server/network) in real-time voice (VoIP)/chat (XMPP) communication and quality assurance engineering/software testing. Kazuaki holds a Master of Information Science degree and a Bachelor of Computer Engineering degree from Hiroshima City University. His technical skills include Software Engineer, test, Mobile, qa, SDET, Web, infra, Android, and iOS. Kazuaki has 4.86 years of relevant experience.