Hugo Kawamata

About me

Greetings fellow web surfer, and welcome to my homepage. I'm Hugo, a senior software developer, currently working at Tanda.

Although I work in tech, when I'm not at the office I usually spend my time on non-tech related projects. I don't feel crazy burning passion for programming itself - my true love is problem solving, which luckily, programming lets me do a lot of.

Me, my partner Kanon, and friends singing karaoke

My Tech Experience

I specialise in:

Ruby on Rails
React & React Native
Javascript in general

but I am fairly language agnostic. I've been working as a software developer since January 2018.

Japanese

I'm half Japanese. I never learned the language much growing up, though I was brought up on various aspects of Japanese culture. I decided to begin learning Japanese seriously in mid 2019, logging around 3 hours of study every day for the first year. I've gotten to the point where I would call myself semi-fluent. My study of Japanese led me down the rabbit hole of linguistics, which you can read more about here.

Jamey Stegmaier (prolific designer and publisher of board games Scythe, Viticulture, and Wingspan) smiling and holding up cards from my game, Hierarchy

Other Passions

Besides Japanese and software, my other passions and hobbies include:

Learning about semiotics.
Art (I doodle and draw cartoons, digitally and with Posca markers)
Dot journalling.
Cooking (especially Japanese cooking). My specialties are fried rice and gyoza.
Tabletop game design (I published a game!)
Weaverdice (I am a worm nerd. Read worm!)

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Last updated: 3 Apr, 2003