Itaru Ota

Itaru OTA

About Me

I am a full-stack software engineer focused on cloud-native product development and AI-enabled systems. I work across APIs, data models, infrastructure, and delivery using TypeScript, Python, Terraform, AWS, and Google Cloud.

My background combines product engineering with NLP research. In 2026, AWS named me a Japan AWS Jr. Champion for my technical and community contributions.

Experience

  1. January 2025 - Present

    Full-stack Engineer

    Full-time

    Python, TypeScript, Next.js, Terraform, Google Cloud, AWS

    • Own features end-to-end from design through implementation to release in a product-driven team.
    • Design and build APIs and data models, and maintain cloud infrastructure and CI/CD with Terraform and AWS.
  2. April 2023 - December 2024

    Application Engineer

    Full-time

    Java, Spring, Python, PyTorch, Pandas, AWS, Azure, Salesforce

    • Built and integrated core business systems across AWS and Salesforce for facility management and leasing domains.
    • Developed AI-powered RAG systems using Python and Azure.
  3. October 2021 - March 2023

    Software Engineer

    Part-time

    Python, PyTorch, Pandas

    • Built OCR tools using image processing and NLP to convert PDFs into editable documents.
    • Developed and optimized deep learning models for anomaly detection on factory production lines.

Education

  1. April 2021 - March 2023

    Nara Institute of Science and Technology

    Master of Engineering, Information Science

    Social Computing Lab

    • Conducted interdisciplinary research in NLP and HCI
    • Contributed to an OSS project for NLP authorship detection
    • Teaching Assistant for Social Computing class
  2. April 2017 - March 2021

    Keio University

    Bachelor of Arts in Economics, Econometrics

    • Studied International Macroeconomics and Econometrics

Publications

  • Improving the Experience of Listening Broadcast Programs Using Social Media Data (Japanese), Master’s thesis [Record]
  • Analysis of the ‘Uniformity Rate’ of Tweets on Broadcast Content (Japanese), The 15th Forum on Data Engineering and Information Management (DEIM2023), 4a-3-2, 2023 (2023/3/5, Gifu, Japan) [PDF]
  • A Proposal for a Radio Program Compression Method Using Twitter (Japanese), The 14th Forum on Data Engineering and Information Management (DEIM2022), C21-2, 2022 (2022/02/28, Online) [PDF]

Awards

  • 2026 Japan AWS Jr. Champion, AWS [URL]
  • Student Presentation Award, DEIM2022 [URL]
  • Data Broad Award, imedia2021 [URL]
  • 1st Prize, GEIOT2021 in NAIST [URL]

Certifications

AWS certifications

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
  • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
  • AWS Certified Security – Specialty
  • AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty
  • AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
  • AWS Certified Developer – Associate
  • AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
  • AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate
  • AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate
  • AWS Certified AI Practitioner
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

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Other credentials

  • Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer
  • Google Cloud Generative AI Leader
  • IPA Applied Information Technology Engineer
  • TOEIC Listening & Reading: 865