日本語
Yosuke TOMITA
Practitioner of education and technology. Reflection coach.
Yosuke Tomita works as a bridge between education and technology. He is an entrepreneur and researcher specializing in reflective learning and AI-supported coaching, and researches learning analytics and educational ecosystem design. Drawing on more than 25 years of building and safeguarding services in IT, he supports organizations in staying secure and developing their people in the age of AI. Companies can work with him through BuildIt Academy. He is the founder of Stockr, an AI-assisted reflection app with more than 70,000 downloads, and shares daily reflection tips on X (in Japanese). Based in Hachioji, Tokyo.
Positions
Current
Past
- Head Coach, Robotami Programming Lab, Hachioji Minamino (Jan 2022–Mar 2026)
- Director Consultant, Tama West Region, BNI Japan (Aug 2022–Apr 2025)
- Technical Advisor, Members Career Co., Ltd. (Aug 2018–Mar 2025)
- Director and CTO, Ousia Inc. (Aug 2017–Feb 2023)
- Technical Advisor / External CTO, Jigyonary Company (Feb 2019–Dec 2019)
- Robotics Engineer, Couger Inc. (Nov 2016–Dec 2018)
- Project Manager, piece of cake, inc. (Sep 2016–May 2018)
- Technical Advisor, Nextage Co., Ltd. (Apr 2016–Dec 2016)
- Head of Engineering, Coach United Inc. (Jan 2014–Jun 2016)
- Public Relations, Open Network for Performing Arts Management (ON-PAM) (Apr 2013–Mar 2017)
- Director, Banana Systems Inc. (Mar 2009–Dec 2013)
- Systems Engineer, KLab Inc. (Jul 2005–Jan 2008)
- Pre-sales Engineer, NTT DoCoMo Tokai, Inc. (Apr 2000–Jun 2005)
Selected achievements
- Granted a Japanese patent for a technology that helps learners turn learning activities into habits (2025)
- The reflection app he founded surpassed 50,000 downloads (2024)
- Certified as a Basic Professional Speaker by the Japan Professional Speakers Association (2023)
- Rebuilt and relaunched the smartphone app of a corporate e-learning provider (2022)
- Completed a full replacement of the core business system of a nationwide early-childhood education company, bringing its development in-house (2021)
- Invented a system for following up with participants after corporate training; patent application published (2018)
- Built from scratch the service platform of a startup supporting corporate training (2017)
- As CTO of an education startup, launched a new call center and its operations systems (2014)
- Joined the development team of a smartphone game that became a mega-hit title, and saw it through launch (2012)
- Released open-source software supporting mobile game development, adopted by many titles (2010)
- Completed the region’s first replacement of in-hospital PHS phones with VoIP phones (2005)
- Achieved the world’s first video delivery of a public service using 3G mobile technology (2002)
Open source
Publications
Patents
Talks, lectures, and community work
Selected from 2019 onward. All talks were given in Japanese. The Japanese page lists the full record back to 2014.
- Tokyo University of Technology, “Value Creation Seminar”: Hints for starting a business — facing your desires and purpose (2025) — Lecturer
- Talk for the staff of a labor and social security attorney corporation: Practicing choice theory psychology, with training in verbalization and reflection (2025) — Lecturer
- Hachioji Rinri Hojinkai: Living by returning to your life’s purpose (2025) — Speaker
- Hachioji Digital Education Support Council: Practicing a reflection habit to reach your life’s purpose (2025) — Speaker
- Hachioji City Startup Support Program (2025) — Lecturer
- Talk for the staff of a life insurance company: Reflection to reach your life’s purpose (2025) — Lecturer
- Senshu University, School of Business Administration, Department of Business Design, “Business Creation” (2025) — Guest lecturer
- Hino City Startup Seminar: Differentiating your idea for market development (2025) — Lecturer
- Tech Achievers #64: The craft of reflection for further growth — from the developer of the reflection app Stockr (2024) — Speaker
- Japan Professional Speakers Association, Sagami Chapter: How a development company with 90% customer satisfaction builds technical capability (2024) — Speaker
- Tokyo University of Technology, “Value Creation Seminar”: My startup and building a product development team (2024) — Lecturer
- Tech Achievers #55: The new leader that talented young employees choose (2024) — Speaker
- Start small, grow big: Building a community where small businesses collaborate (2024) — Lecturer
- Tokyo Keizai University, Kato Seminar: 24 years of facing “work,” and thinking about life’s purpose (2024) — Lecturer
- Tokyo University of Technology, “Value Creation Seminar”: Team building for user-value-driven product development (2023) — Lecturer
- Senshu University, School of Business Administration, “Business Creation” (2023) — Guest lecturer
- J. F. Oberlin University, College of Business Management, “Venture Business” (2023) — Guest lecturer
- TAMA Startup Seminar for under-25s, 9th cohort (2023) — Lecturer
- Hachioji Parent-Child Programming Contest (2021–2023) — Executive committee member and final-round judge
- TAMA Startup Seminar: Raising money to start a business (2022) — Lecturer
- Skill Up Seminar: What you must know before commissioning app development (2022) — Lecturer
- U-16 Programming Contest, Hachioji (2021–2022) — Executive committee member
- Startup Weekend TAMA (2022) and Startup Weekend Tokyo Hachioji (2019) — Mentor
- Hachioji Business Plan Contest (2019–2021) — Judge and organizer
- Tokyo Hachioji West Rotary Club: Toward online meetings (2020) — Speaker
- Yuruhachi.it, a local tech meetup in Hachioji (2018–2021) — Organizer and speaker
- HR Conference 2019 Autumn, Tech Day, organized by Jinjibu (2019) — Case study presentation
Podcasts
Theater
Selected. All articles are in Japanese.
Certifications
Awards
Please reach out through any of the channels listed on about.me/tmtysk. I may not be able to reply to messages without an introduction.