(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

(Mercari AI press release)

Weights & Biases Fully Connected Tokyo 2024: The Gen AI Powering the Next Generation of the Mercari Marketplace

(Weights & Biases Recap Blog Post)

Weights & Biases Fully Connected San Francisco 2024: How Mercari is Using Gen AI to Define the Future of Japanese C2C E-commerce

(Weights & Biases Recap Blog Post)

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)

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University of California San Diego (UCSD): Computer Science

Matriculated as a Ph.D. student, left to help spearhead SonoSim's AI efforts.

 

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".

 
 
The Oracle Code (2020)

The Oracle Code (2020)

Global Frequency: The Deluxe Edition (2018)

Global Frequency: The Deluxe Edition (2018)