Takahiro (Poly) Horikawa Email & Phone Number

Tokyo, JP

Tokyo, Japan

Curiosity is a creative company which produces entertainment spaces by state-of-the-art technology, story and design. In the early days of the company, we worked on interactive digital attractions and installations using projection mapping, various sensors, robots, etc., but recently, we have been focusing more on XR-related projects, especially AR and MR..

Tokyo, Japan

- Developed a mobile application that performs specific object recognition on a huge (>100K) image database.- Responsible for all technology-related things.

Sunnyvale, CA

- Implemented a couple of new feature for Yahoo Aviate- Integrated Yahoo news stream into Yahoo mail app for Android.- Developed Yahoo News Digest app for Android as an initial core developer. I mainly worked on implementing beautiful animations and improving its UI performance.- Implemented Yahoo's A/B testing framework for Android which is used by all.

Santa Clara, CA

- Implemented iOS/Android mobile HTML5 games as a lead developer.- Working in close collaboration with Production, Design, QA, Localization teams.

Tokyo, Japan

- As a chief developer on music distribution service, developed four Android applications and one iOS application from scratch. Practiced Agile development process--developed prototype quickly, kept refactoring the code, and used Test Driven Development. In these projects, I also designed and implemented DRM and Streaming mechanism.- Supervised.

Tokyo, Japan

- Designed, implemented and maintained large scale banking systems with 20+ member of external engineers.- Established a close relationship with customers and define the system requirement together.