Kenta Iwasaki
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Kenta Iwasaki is a software engineer, game programmer, robotics engineer, and serial technical entrepreneur with a heavy research background on distributed systems, cryptography, signal processing, mathematics, statistics, and machine learning. His R&D works under Hyperia, Perlin, and NAVER Corp has introduced substantial novel interdisciplinary solutions to a wide range of industrial and scientific domains. From disassembling/hacking games to implementing botnets/exploits to widely-used antiviruses/application VM’s starting at an age of 6, Kenta has won several (~20) internationally recognized competitions and hackathons at Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, Stanford University, ETH Denver, EOS, Solana, Binance, Aptos, IBM, University of Waterloo, HKUST, University of Pennsylvania, US Department of State, and General Electric . He has an extensive record in independently architecting, scaling, and implementing a wide plethora of technically challenging systems such as currency exchanges, distributed databases, sharded multiplayer game servers, hardware-accelerated graphic engines, cross-platform networking libraries, and distributed computing platforms.
Stanford University Graduate School of Business
CUPP Go-To-Market Bootcamp
January 1, 2017 – January 1, 2018
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Science
January 1, 2015 – January 1, 2025
Superpower
Engineering
September 1, 2025 – Present
San Francisco, California, United States
LIKE Labs
Chief Technology Officer
August 1, 2023 – August 1, 2025
Hybrid
Hyperia
Founder, CTO
April 1, 2020 – January 1, 2023
Tokyo, Japan
Perlin
Founder, CTO
February 1, 2018 – March 1, 2020
Singapore
Velcron Limited
Founder, CTO
July 1, 2017 – February 1, 2018
Hong Kong · Hybrid
NAVER Corp
Artificial Intelligence Researcher
June 1, 2017 – February 1, 2018
NAVER Green Factory · On-site
HKUST Robotics Team
Robotics Engineer
December 1, 2016 – August 1, 2017
HKUST Robotics Institute (DJI) - Robomasters · On-site
PeakVizor (VisMOOC)
Software Engineer
June 1, 2016 – July 1, 2016
Hong Kong · On-site
AIESEC
Software Engineer
March 1, 2015 – April 1, 2015
Sydney, Australia · Remote
Magario International Company Limited
Senior Software Engineer
October 1, 2013 – December 1, 2016
Hong Kong · On-site
Dranithix
Founder, CEO
January 1, 2011 – September 1, 2016
Hong Kong
life - A secure WebAssembly VM built for decentralized applications.
July 1, 2018 – Present
life is a secure & fast WebAssembly VM built for decentralized applications; supporting deterministic execution across numerous hardware and gas instruction-counting. Features 1. Fast - Includes a fast interpreter and an experimental AOT compilation engine. 2. Correct - Implements WebAssembly execution semantics and passes most of the official test suite (66/72 passed, none of the failures are related to the execution semantics). 3. Secure - User code executed is fully sandboxed. A WebAssembly module's access to resources (instruction cycles, memory usage) may easily be controlled to the very finest detail. 4. Pure - Does not rely on any native dependencies in interpreter-only mode, and may easily be cross-compiled for running WebAssembly modules on practically any platform (Windows/Linux/Mac/Android/iOS/etc). 5. Practical - Make full use of the minimal nature of WebAssembly to write code once and run anywhere. Completely customize how WebAssembly module imports are resolved and integrated, and have complete control over the execution lifecycle of your WebAssembly modules. life is an open-source library that has been used for interpreting WebAssembly code in Go programs, security-auditing in-the-wild WebAssembly modules, and more. It has accumulated over 1,400 Github stars.
noise - A decentralized P2P networking stack written in Go.
June 1, 2018 – Present
noise is a peer-to-peer (p2p) networking stack with minimal dependencies which allows for extreme granularity in defining, testing, developing and deploying complex, secure, performant, and robust networking protocols in Go. By itself, noise is a low-level, stateless, concurrent networking library that easily allows you to incorporate fundamental features any modern p2p application needs such as: - cryptographic primitives (Ed25519, PoW, AES-256), - message serialization/deserialization schemes (byte-order little endian, protobuf, msgpack), - network timeout/error management (on dial, on receive message, on send buffer full), - network-level atomic operations (receive-then-lock), - and NAT traversal support (NAT-PMP, UPnP). noise is open-sourced, and has been experimented with by engineers from Microsoft, Shopify, etc. garnering over 1,300 Github stars.
wavelet - A decentralized, asynchronous, general-purpose proof-of-stake ledger that scales against powerful, adaptive adversaries.
May 1, 2018 – Present
Wavelet introduces a novel family of consensus protocols. It is designed to alleviate the numerous scalability dilemmas predicated in decentralized ledgers, such as those that utilize either the longest chain rule, or some variant of stake delegation or committee election scheme. Wavelet guarantees irreversibility of transactions, and a consistent total ordering of transactions without any compromise on safety, performance or liveness; enabling features such as transaction pruning and Turing-complete smart contract execution. The safety and liveness of Wavelet is solely dependent on the safety and liveness of any arbitrarily chosen Byzantine fault-tolerant binary consensus protocol executed within the Wavelet framework. Unlike prior works, Wavelet requires minimal configuration of a minuscule set of system parameters to work in a large range of practical network settings where communication is only partially synchronous.
canteen - A decentralized container orchestrator.
February 1, 2018 – Present
canteen is an extremely scalable container orchestrator that is fault-tolerant, easy to install, easy to distribute, and most importantly decentralized through the utility of an Ethereum smart contract. canteen efficiently schedules and orchestrates designated Docker containers to a set of servers based on speculated/provisioned container resource limits.
Dream.it - A generative fashion design platform.
February 1, 2017 – Present
You're walking down the road, and see a belle rocking an exquisite one-piece. "Damn, that would look good on me (or my wife)". You go home and try to look for it: "beautiful red dress". Google gives you 110,000,000 results in 0.54 seconds. Well that helped a lot. You think of checking the fashion websites, but the number of these e-commerce websites makes you refrain from spending more than a few hours. "This is impossible...". You perseverance only lasts so long - you give up. Fast forward to 2017. We've got everything from Neural Forests to Adversarial Networks. You go home to look for it: Launch Dream.it You make a chicken-sketch of the dress - you just need to get the curves right. You select the pattern on the dress, a couple of estimates about the dress. Dream.it synthesizes elegant dresses based on your sketch. It then gives you search results from different stores based on similar dresses, and an option to get on custom made. You love the internet. You love Dream.it. Its a wonderful place to make your life wonderful. Sketch and search for anything and everything from shoes and bracelets to dresses and jeans: all at your slightest whim. Dream.it lets you buy existing products or get a new one custom-made to fit you.
Railtime - Microworkers on the go.
November 1, 2016 – Present
Railtime is a mobile game leveraging and gamifying the 750k+ microworker jobs market (consisting of platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk) to MTR's 2.5 million untapped passengers yielding profits and valuable data analytics to companies around the world.
BitGraph - An insurance policy for experienced and inexperienced traders.
November 1, 2016 – Present
BitGraph clusters together traders with similar trading traits, and shares their profit proportionally to the amount of money they deposit into their cluster at the beginning of a market day. Clusters are created at the start of the market day and closed at the end. We can consider these clusters as a trading firm; as a separate unit which has money that was deposited by traders at the beginning of the cluster. If Trader A put $10k and Trader B put $20k, then cluster is a unit that has $30k, $10k of them will be managed by trader A, and $20k of them will be managed by trader B. Profit is shared among cluster members, so that if any profit or loss occurs, it is shared proportionally to the amount of money the traders deposited from the very beginning.
Lyfe - A decentralized social network driven by emotion.
September 1, 2016 – Present
Lyfe is a real-time anonymous social network which lets people view the biggest highlights of our internet's plethora of content verified through their reactions and emotions as they scroll through videos and images online on a daily basis. The emotion spectrum of each user is determined in real-time through the user's webcam via. a Chrome plugin, and anonymously posted with the respective content they have viewed onto the social network. With this, users can build and view a meshed reaction profile as to how they react to a wide variety of content, and get a real-time stream of content people find funny/controversial/interesting on-the-go entirely uncensored with security assured. New forms of technology can make use of these unique, anonymized reaction profiles to deliver a whole new personalized user experience. Won Hack the North as a Winner/Finalist and acclaimed numerous prizes.
Hearth - Self-learning smart city platform that provides users offline access to emergency services & community resources.
August 1, 2016 – Present
Hearth is an intelligent city platform that connects modern street lights, traffic signals, and sensors together through the cloud in order to create a real-time city-scale social network that provides city planners artificially intelligent real-time traffic & land management systems, and provides citizens access to first-class emergency services, transportation resources, and essential city & community information from almost anywhere without any need for an Internet signal. This project won 2nd place, best student app., and best integration of Pitney Bowes API's for General Electric's hackathon Intelligent World.
Cheatsheet - Collaborative, real-time note-taking study platform.
May 1, 2016 – Present
CheatSheet is an educational platform, with a focus on helping students study better. Users can take notes on the app using digital ink, empowering them to easily create, share and access information, while collaborating in real-time. CheatSheet also creates streamlined summaries of your notes meshed with peers around you, and enhances your study experience with auto-generated practice questions to help you prepare for your tests. With a host of powerful, intelligent study tools, CheatSheet lets you make the most out of your notes.
Cradle - Augmenting fear into real-life.
April 1, 2016 – Present
Cradle is a 3D augmented reality horror survival game developed in under 24 hours where you are trapped in an unsettling world having to fend off your darkest demons while living through the dull and harsh reality we come to know as real life. As you venture further on into this world, you come to realize that these demons you face are projections of your own emotions rampaging wild against people you have strong, negative feelings for. From that point on, you start gradually losing your sense of normality, and eventually, your sanity to the darker parts of the world.
StreetBite - Street food for the hungry worker.
February 1, 2016 – Present
When we want to dine out at peak hours or late nights, we find that restaurants are often fully booked out or have ridiculous wait times. As a result, we end up spending infinite time while waiting on the line; end up paying much more than we originally intended at the next best alternative; worst of all, going back home irritated and hungry for the majority of the day. We thought to create a preorder & prepayment app that connects us with local food stalls, allowing us to reduce waiting time; simplify transaction process; discover new dining alternatives that we wouldn't have otherwise found out about. Of course, if the stall has a few seats free, you can choose to dine in as well. StreetBite is an Android app allows rushed and tired Hong Kong locals to pre-order and prepay for street food at their favorite stall, so that their order is piping hot and ready to pick up when they get there. Our IoT solution is tailor-made to suit the needs of street food vendors, optimizing their workflows and that of similar SMEs.
plexSpectrum
January 1, 2015 – September 1, 2015
When it comes to the art of creating music, many face the challenge of having to learn how to play an instrument alongside learning music theory. In most cases, this strips off those who are physically or mentally disabled the privilege of composing music. To combat this, my project allows users to take photos/videos with any device and transform them into live and harmonic musical compositions owned and backed by instruments picked to the user's tastes. This project uses its own unique computer music algorithm to generate music which holds properties similar to a systemic hybrid between Genetic algorithms and Markov chains (stochastic cellular automata). It was done on my last year of high school for Google Science Fair.
plexJDB
March 1, 2011 – August 1, 2013
A Java drive-by generator that provides companies and individuals access towards patching and investigating several real-world JVM (Java Virtual Machine) CVE Exploits. Provides antivirus companies and security companies access to live samples of malicious drive-by exploits.
Bitracker
February 1, 2010 – Present
An Android game I created on behalf of Dranithix Games during my high-school freshman year. Programmed using Java with the OpenGL library wrapper LibGDX, and was done in order to investigate 2D simulated motion physics and pixel shader-based rendering in OpenGL.
Cultural Fit Analysis
The candidate exhibits a strong cultural fit for an innovative and technically challenging environment, given their history of founding startups, leading R&D, and contributing to cutting-edge technologies like blockchain and AI. Their diverse project experience, ranging from generative fashion to augmented reality games and decentralized ledgers, showcases a broad interest and ability to adapt to various technical domains. The target role of 'Unity Developer' aligns with their past game development projects ('Bitracker', 'Cradle') and general software engineering expertise, suggesting a good match for a role requiring both technical depth and creative problem-solving.
Soft Skills & Operational Fit
The candidate's extensive entrepreneurial background as Founder/CTO across multiple ventures suggests strong initiative, problem-solving, and leadership skills. Their involvement in open-source projects and contributions to major frameworks (React, Next.js, Zig compiler) indicate a collaborative spirit and a commitment to community. The diverse project portfolio, including several game-related projects, demonstrates adaptability and a broad technical curiosity. However, the lack of specific communication assessment data makes it difficult to fully evaluate their soft skills in a team setting beyond what can be inferred from leadership roles.