Akito Kobayashi

Why I Joined

After working for several years at my previous company, I began to feel that my own level of enthusiasm was lacking compared with the people around me. That led me to start looking for a place with more chaos—in the best possible sense—and full of challenges, somewhere I could truly immerse myself. The first trigger was being approached by the then leader of the CADDi Platform Team during that search. What ultimately convinced me, though, was my deep empathy for both the mission and the product. CADDi's mission is to unleash the potential of manufacturing, and since I have long enjoyed working on improving developer productivity—essentially, unleashing the potential of developers themselves—it resonated with me strongly. I was also deeply moved by a note article by product leader Shirai that I read during the interview process. That strong sense of alignment is what finally led me to join CADDi.