Luc Mahoux-Nakamura
Engineer and co-founder of Minitap
Engineer and co-founder of Minitap
I’m a French-Japanese engineer and co-founder of Minitap, where we build AI agents that test mobile apps autonomously.
I started playing StarCraft at four, grew up reading science fiction, and wanted my own R2-D2. Eventually, that interest took me to Tokyo, building delivery-drone infrastructure at Rakuten (Tokyo, Japan).
I competed in swimming and reached the top 0.07% of League of Legends players worldwide. Over time, I realized what I enjoyed most was going beyond what seems to be possible and challenging the status quo. At EPITA (Paris, France), that meant pushing past my shyness to become student-union president and founding the university’s Google Developer Student Club.
At Rakuten, Hiroshi Mikitani’s idea of a company as a shared mission made me want to build one. With my best friend, I co-founded FueGo, a travel app we grew while finishing our studies. We eventually shut it down.
Along the way, I led engineering teams and joined Theodo Cloud to learn from its approach to lean management.
Then my co-founder and I started again. We flew to San Francisco and built Minitap with our team. Our agent achieved 100% on Google DeepMind’s AndroidWorld benchmark, and we raised $4.1M. Today, I work across product, engineering, and customers to make Minitap a product QA teams can rely on every day.