(2021-Present)
Shaping and executing Mercari’s AI product strategy.
Architecting AI systems and processes that deliver outsized business impact for Japan’s largest C2C e-commerce marketplace. Establishing foundational platforms, workflows, and engineering best practices for AI/LLM application development.
Acting as a unifying force across the organization, working throughout the company in multiple ad-hoc capacities to serve as the technical glue and social oil catalyzing the teams’ impact on our product and our customers.
FOSSASIA Summit 2025: LLMOps for Eval-Driven Development at Scale
Mercari @ Berlin Buzzwords 2024! A closeup.
Berlin Buzzwords 2024: Robust AI Search Ranking for Radical C2C Marketplace Growth
Berlin Buzzwords 2023: Building MLOps Infrastructure at Japan's Largest C2C E-Commerce Platform
Weights & Biases Fully Connected Tokyo 2024: The Gen AI Powering the Next Generation of the Mercari Marketplace
Weights & Biases Fully Connected San Francisco 2024: How Mercari is Using Gen AI to Define the Future of Japanese C2C E-commerce
FOSSASIA Summit 2024: Unleashing the Potential of AI Through Search Ranking: How Mercari Uses Data & Science to Drive Marketplace Growth
FOSSASIA Summit 2023: The Bumpy Road of Bringing a Machine Learning Model From Development to Production - Part 2: Infrastructure, Testing, Productionalization, and Monitoring
(2018-2022)
Spearheaded SonoSim’s AI initiatives and established foundational backend development processes.
Led both the AI/ML and backend development teams behind the SonoSim® Ultrasound Training Solution. Built Sonosim's entire portfolio of AI/ML projects and established the company’s MLOps and DevOps best practices/processes.
Applying AI Towards Ultrasound Competency Assessment
(2017-2019)
University of California San Diego (UCSD): Computer Science
Matriculated as a Ph.D. student, left to help spearhead SonoSim's AI efforts.
Ph.D. Research Mastery Exam
A Master’s thesis as well as a Ph.D. research prospectus, with the subject area chosen specifically to best guide our efforts at SonoSim, Inc.
Teofilo E. Zosa. "Catalyzing Clinical Diagnostic Pipelines Through Volumetric Medical Image Segmentation Using Deep Neural Networks: Past, Present, & Future." UCSD Computer Science and Engineering Ph.D. Research Mastery Exam, June 7, 2019.
Technical Design Direction
Provided technical art direction on various design pages for "Global Frequency: The Deluxe Edition" and the front cover design for "The Oracle Code".