Kazuya completed his studies in the Department of Aerospace and Marine-System Engineering at the Graduate School of Engineering at Osaka Prefecture University in 2023. As a new grad he joined Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd., and at an aerospace systems company he worked on the development & design of next-generation civilian helicopters. As a business development engineer at Space BD, he aims to make services that use space a normal part of life. He is from Toyama Prefecture.