Chief Executive Officer

• Jun 2021 - Present

Community Manager

• Mar 2022 - Present

Running a weekly meetup, Tuesdays, at the Tokyo International Forum. We are community for startup founders, investors and all people interested in the startup scene. Running a weekly meetup, Tuesdays, at the Tokyo International Forum. We are community for startup founders, investors and all people interested in the startup scene.

Chief Technology Officer

• Oct 2022 - Sep 2023

SEEFY aimed at developing tools to improve the productivity of managers and executives, offering services like a NFC based smart business card, a platform for matching MBA students and companies for short to midterm consulting gigs as well as a SaaS for improving the productivity of meetings powered by AI. Responsibilities Did market research, looking for existing competitors, especially abroad, trying to identify possible niches to approach. This involved analyzing the competition, both domestic and international, to identify any gaps in the market that could be exploited. This also involved looking at the strengths and weaknesses of the competition, so that the product could be positioned accordingly. Translated business requirements into product specifications and defined the product roadmap. This involved taking the business requirements and translating them into a set of product specifications that could be used to develop the product. This also involved defining the product roadmap, which is a plan for how the product will be developed over time. Designed, implemented, and tested the systems from infrastructure to frontend. This involved developing the software that would power the product, from the underlying infrastructure to the user interface. This also involved testing the product to ensure that it was working as intended. Show less

Head of Product and Engineering - Retail Media Platform

• Jan 2022 - Apr 2022

I lead the efforts to create a Media/Advertising platform that encompasses multiple outlets our retailers use including the Smart Shopping Cart and smartphone applications.

Head Of Engineering

• Jan 2021 - Apr 2022

Leading a team of 35+ engineers and data scientists.My role as Head of Engineering is to guarantee that our products are sound technically from concept and to nurture and grow our engineering and research organization, from Infrastructure to Personalization.My responsibilities are two-fold:* Product StrategyDecision-making together with Product Management and C-level leadership. I make sure our product strategy is technically sound and that Retail AI has Engineering as a first-class citizen from product conception to delivery to the client.* Organization Development and Engineering CultureHands on team building, including hiring and mentoring. From the start we've strived to create a culture of high productivity hand in hand with work life balance. We believe in testing and automation. We try our best to no cut corners when it comes to design and make sure that technical deficit is properly taken into account. Long hours are definitely not standard.Above all: I believe managers and leadership exist to guarantee engineers are free and able to do what they do best: write awesome code and develop the best products. Show less

Engineering Manager

• Mar 2020 - Dec 2020

Core Team Member

• Jul 2018 - Dec 2020

Core team member. Infrastructure management, Web Development (Google Cloud Platform and GSuite). Event organization support Administrative tasks (Review of Japanese documents/translation etc) Core team member. Infrastructure management, Web Development (Google Cloud Platform and GSuite). Event organization support Administrative tasks (Review of Japanese documents/translation etc)

Technical Solutions Engineer

• Nov 2017 - Feb 2020

Japan Office employee number 3, first technical hire. * Supporting over 50 accounts across Japan and Korea. * Direct contact with clients from pre-sales to post-launch maintenance * Client visits with Sales/Biz Dev to introduce the IronSource platform from a technical perspective, its advantages and the integration flow * Supporting client integration of the IronSource SDK for Android (Java), iOS (Objective C) and Unity (C#) and others * Implementation of custom solutions for premium clients * Design and implement C++(Cocos2d-x) plugin supporting Android and iOS (Java, ObjC) * Finding bugs and sending fixes for the SDK engineering team * Implementation of tools to support internal teams Show less

Technical Product Specialist

• Dec 2014 - Oct 2017

Helping advertisers get the best out of Brand campaigns through technology and supporting internal and external stakeholders with data analysis/reporting solutions Responsibilities/Accomplishments: * Support agencies and large advertisers, providing technical consultancy, feasibility assessments on brand ad formats and products * Managing and training team of vendors for ad campaign implementations * Development of internal experimental ads measurement tool utilizing internal and external data sources (logs, Single Source Panel data) * Revamping of regional internal reporting, from rebuilding data sources up to report designing * Overall data analysis support for regional teams providing solutions that range from simple scripts to full fledged dashboards utilized by upper management and Directors. * Analysis of ads delivery performance utilizing internal Machine Learning Platform aiming to reduce over delivery problems (Decision Trees, sklearn) * Participation in internal hackathons - Introduction to TensorFlow - Machine Learning: Sentiment Analysis on customer feedback Show less

Engineer

• Feb 2014 - Sep 2014

Lead Engineer

• May 2012 - Feb 2014

Development of mobiles web services focused on C2C. Lead engineer for 毎日フリマ(Mainichi Furima - http://maifuri.jp), managing a team of 5 engineers. Taking care of server management. Also working with server side development. Technologies/ Tools: Puppet, Capistrano, PHP, Javascript, Ruby, Code Igniter, MySQL, Memcached, Vagrant. Development of mobiles web services focused on C2C. Lead engineer for 毎日フリマ(Mainichi Furima - http://maifuri.jp), managing a team of 5 engineers. Taking care of server management. Also working with server side development. Technologies/ Tools: Puppet, Capistrano, PHP, Javascript, Ruby, Code Igniter, MySQL, Memcached, Vagrant.

Developer

• Mar 2011 - Apr 2012

Leading Android Developer taking front of the app development for big clients like NTT Communications. Server-side development including interface between services and application backend. Gave Introduction presentations on Android development, SVN and git to other members of the company. Technologies: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, PHP, Java, Linux, SVN, Git Leading Android Developer taking front of the app development for big clients like NTT Communications. Server-side development including interface between services and application backend. Gave Introduction presentations on Android development, SVN and git to other members of the company. Technologies: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, PHP, Java, Linux, SVN, Git

Co-founder

• Jan 2011 - Oct 2011

Software Engineer

• Apr 2010 - Apr 2011

System development, focusing on academic research and R&D systems. Worked as a Natural Language Processing specialist, writing reports and surveying technologies like Sentiment Analysis and Recommendation Systems. System development, focusing on academic research and R&D systems. Worked as a Natural Language Processing specialist, writing reports and surveying technologies like Sentiment Analysis and Recommendation Systems.