Itaru OTA
About Me
A Software Engineer with 3+ years of experience in developing.
Master’s in Engineering, focused on enhancing user experiences in audio media through natural language processing and social media data analysis.
AWS-certified: Solutions Architect Professional, Security Specialty, etc.
Experience
January 2025 - Present
FullStack Engineer (Full-time)
Python, TypeScript (Next.js), Google Cloud, AWS
April 2023 - December 2024
Application Engineer (Full-time)
Java (Spring), Python (PyTorch, Pandas), AWS, Azure, Salesforce
- Experienced Application Engineer with expertise in integrating cloud-based platforms and developing AI-powered RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) systems.
- Developed core business systems for facility management and leasing companies.
- Integrated systems with AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Salesforce to improve efficiency and scalability.
- Held the role of Assistant Manager, ensuring timely project delivery and team collaboration.
October 2021 - March 2023
Software Engineer (Part-time)
Python (PyTorch, Pandas)
- Experienced Software Engineer with expertise in developing AI-powered OCR tools and optimizing deep learning models for industrial applications.
- Developed OCR tools using image processing and NLP to convert PDFs into editable documents, enhancing data extraction and digitization.
- Optimized deep learning models for anomaly detection in factory lines, reducing costs and boosting productivity.
Education
April 2021 - March 2023
Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Master of Engineering, Information Science
- Conducted interdisciplinary research in NLP and HCI
- Contributed to an OSS project for NLP authorship detection
- Teaching Assistant for Social Computing class
April 2017 - March 2021
Keio University
Bachelor of Arts in Economics, Econometrics
- Studied International Macroeconomics and Econometrics
Publication
- Improving the Experience of Listening Broadcast Programs Using Social Media Data (Master’s thesis) [PDF]
- Analysis of the Uniformity Rate of Tweets for Broadcast Programs, The 15th Forum on Data Engineering and Information Management (DEIM2023), 4a-3-2, 2023 (2023/3/5, Gifu, Japan) [PDF]
- Proposal of the Radio Programs Compression Method Using Twitter, The 14th Forum on Data Engineering and Information Management (DEIM2022), C21-2, 2022 (2022/02/28, Online) [PDF]
Awards
Certifications
- TOEIC 865 points
- IPA Fundamental Information Technology Engineer
- IPA Applied Information Technology Engineer
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C01)
- AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIF-C01)
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03)
- AWS Certified Developer - Associate (DVA-C02)
- AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate (SOA-C02)
- AWS Certified Data Engineer - Associate (DEA-C01)
- AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer - Associate (MLA-C01)
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (SAP-C02)
- AWS Certified Security - Specialty (SCS-C02)
- AWS Certified Data Analytics - Specialty (DAS-C01)
- AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty (MLS-C01)