Explore a selection of projects created by CurioSwitch.
Shiragata Soken
Background Small and medium-sized businesses make up 99.7% of Japanese companies. Their leaders support the country's economy, yet there are very few opportunities to hear about th…
ENJIN
At the beginning of the year, Japanese people traditionally exchange New Year's cards to wish one another health and happiness in the year ahead. For 2024, the Year of the Dragon,…
CurioSwitch
CurioSwitch's Open Source Projects At CurioSwitch, we publish the technical foundations we build through our daily development work as open source. This effort grew out of our desi…
弱みを握る寿司屋
What will money mean in the years ahead? At a time when cashless payments, pension concerns, and the consumption tax hike scheduled for October 2019 were stirring public anxiety ar…
NHK STR Lab / MESON
At "Open House 2025," hosted by NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories from May 29 to June 1, 2025, we worked with MESON Inc. on a concept exhibition exploring future viewi…
At "Kurukuru Heroes Exhibit," created by Yowami wo Nigiru Sushiya, we asked: what does justice mean in today's chaotic world, and what kind of hero are people looking for now? Flye…
If every beginning must have an end, why are we never taught how to end things? The end of COVID. The beginning of a new era. Fifteen art directors from backgrounds including graph…
How can we enjoy distance more? At "Distance Zanmai Exhibit," seventeen art directors from the creative collective Yowami wo Nigiru Sushiya, whose backgrounds span graphic design,…
Appearance has tremendous influence, for better or worse. What meaning does appearance hold, and what does it communicate to us? Are the impressions we receive from looks really ac…
Seikatsu Club / ENJIN
Seikatsu Club "Another Milk" x WOW Score Tool As part of Seikatsu Club's project to communicate the appeal of pasteurized milk, we built a system that uses AI to analyze people's r…
ThinkNature
We designed the corporate website for Think Nature, a nature tech company that uses biodiversity and natural capital big data to help build a society that coexists with nature. To…
We created "Nature Positive Journal," a media site for Think Nature. It makes highly specialized topics such as biodiversity and natural capital feel more accessible to a wider aud…
We are developing COOPii, a conversational cooking app that makes everyday cooking more enjoyable. "What should I cook today?" Life gets busy. You shop for ingredients, prepare a m…
Buf
A CurioSwitch engineer contributed to the development of protobuf-py, a new Protocol Buffers library from Buf. Built from scratch for Python, protobuf-py is a modern and ergonomic…
OpenTelemetry
A CurioSwitch engineer helped develop and launch the OpenTelemetry Java SDK and drove its integration with AWS services while at Amazon. OpenTelemetry is an open standard for colle…
Armeria
A CurioSwitch engineer has contributed gRPC support, high-performance decoders, and other improvements to Armeria, a reactive microservice framework for Java. Armeria serves gRPC,…
OpenZipkin
CurioSwitch engineers contribute to Zipkin and other projects in the OpenZipkin ecosystem. When a system is made of many services, finding the source of latency or an error becomes…
pyvoy is a Python application server developed by CurioSwitch and implemented in Envoy. It uses Envoy Dynamic Modules to embed a Python interpreter inside a module loaded by a stoc…
