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tuxedocat

Software Engineer
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I am a software engineer, working remotely from Japan with cats. Currently I'm focusing on production side of ML/NLP, aka software engineering for ML/NLP in some multi-modal settings.

Skills and proficiency

  • Natural languages
    • Japanese (native)
    • English (not bad: TOEIC 935/990, IELTS Academic overall 7.0/9.0)
    • German (beginner)
  • Programming languages
    • Python 3.x
    • TypeScript (Node.js backend)
    • Scala
    • Rust (beginner; used in previous project)
    • Go (beginner; used in previous project)
    • Haskell (learning)
    • ...
  • Frameworks and tools
    • PyData stack (Numpy/Scipy/Pandas/Scikit-learn/Jupyter)
    • Some machine learning toolkits (PyTorch, Triton Inference Server, ...)
    • gRPC
    • GCP (BigQuery, AI-Platform, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, GKE)
    • AWS (as an ECS user)
    • Apache Beam (via Scio, and Java API)
    • *nix

Experiences

  • (Please contact me.)

Education

  • M.E. in Information Science (Natural Language Processing), Nara Institute of Science and Technology
    • Computational Linguistics Lab.
    • Research subjects: Japanese SRL and educational NLP for ESL learners.
    • Teaching assistant: NAIST Spring Seminar, Mar. 2012.
    • Funding: NAIST Creative and International Competitiveness Project 2012.