Hiroshi is Senior Field Application Engineer and Technical Evangelist at Audiokinetic K.K. (Japan), and provides technical support to customers who have implemented Wwise, or are considering doing so. His career as a game programmer began in 1997 with PlayStation, continuing on until PlayStation3, after which he started working in mobile games. Hiroshi moved on to the cyber security industry in 2016, but returned to gaming in 2021 when he began his current role. With experience in color reduction tools and development of PS1 video standards, he has a patent in layered drawing using 3-value α movies, and he is actually more of a visuals guy rather than audio.