Kenji Rikitake

Kenji Rikitake started programming at age 8 (45 years ago). He began his professional career as a programmer and operating system tools designer at Digital Equipment Corporation Japan R&D Center. He is a user of Erlang/OTP since 2008. Kenji has a Ph.D. of Information Science from Osaka University and is a government-registered Professional Engineer of Information Engineering in Japan. His research interests include DNS, remote working, network security, operating systems, and software-defined radio engineering. Kenji has been an independent software engineer since 2014, after working for various institutions including KDDI R&D Labs, NICT of Japan's Telecom Ministry, and Kyoto University. His contribution to the BEAM communities includes Erlang/OTP rand module, ACM SIGPLAN Erlang Workshop 2011 Workshop Chair and the 2019 Workshop Program Committee Member, and ten talks on Erlang Factory and Code BEAM events since 2010. Kenji is also a seasoned amateur radio operator since 1976 with the primary callsign JJ1BDX. social_links: - platform: twitter url: "https://x.com/jj1bdx" - platform: github url: "https://github.com/jj1bdx"