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Itaru OTA

Application Engineer specializing in API integration with Salesforce and AWS, and enhancing backend APIs for enterprise systems.
Master’s in Engineering, focused on enhancing user experiences in audio media through natural language processing and social media data analysis. My research improved radio listening experiences by optimizing playback speed using Twitter(X) data to enhance user satisfaction during limited listening times.
AWS-certified: Solutions Architect Professional, Security Specialty, and four additional certifications.
Aspiring to blend my passion for solving real-world problems with a keen interest in enhancing software products. 🔥

August 2023 – Present
Individual Development
Technologies Used: TypeScript (Next.js, NestJS, Prisma), Git, Docker, MySQL, Redis
- Defined requirements, designed, and implemented the backend for a web browser application of a city latitude and longitude guessing board game
April 2023 – Present
Application Engineer (Full-time)
Technologies Used: AWS, Salesforce, Java (Spring), Python (PyTorch, Pandas)
- Designed and implemented API integration between Salesforce and AWS for an internal business reporting system renewal project, including front-end modifications
- Designed and implemented APIs for an API expansion project of a core business system
- Designed and implemented a stock price prediction model using natural language processing for an internal research and development project
October 2021 – March 2023
Software Engineer (Part-time)
Technologies Used: Python (PyTorch, Pandas), Git, Docker, SQLite
- Implemented feature enhancements for document OCR software
- Improved model accuracy for image detection software on factory lines

April 2021 - March 2023
Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Master of Engineering, Information Science and Engineering
- Interdisciplinary research in NLP, HCI, and Computational Social Science
- 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
- Participated in seminar on International Macroeconomics and Econometrics
- Studied Descriptive, Inferential, and Bayesian Statistics

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]