Kanta Yamaoka
Research Assistant at Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI)
Tokyo, Germany
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Top SchoolKanta Yamaoka is a research-oriented software engineer with 7 years of experience bridging hyperscale operations, MLOps, and applied ML research across Japan and Germany. Formerly a Datacenter Technician at Google, he paired hands-on hardware and network ops with data-driven process improvements and global knowledge sharing, and even helped design an international student hackathon for data center careers. He has built production-ready ML infrastructure and on-prem GPU orchestration at Rokken, shipped containerized cloud services for personalized language learning using vision and LLMs at DFKI, and integrated real-time experimental tooling with eye-tracking for cognitive research. Now an MSc student at RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau and incoming research assistant at DFKI, his focus is probabilistic ML for healthcare applications. Colleagues value him for turning repetitive ops into automated, auditable workflows and for making research prototypes production-capable. Fluent across Python, C++, IaC, cloud ML services and frontend stacks, he combines systems-level rigor with a user-centered research mindset.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Student, Computer Science, N/A (Research Exchange Program), Exchange Student, Computer Science, N/A (Research Exchange Program) at Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU)Master of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at RPTU Kaiserslautern-LandauBachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, 3.48/4.0 (87%), Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, 3.48/4.0 (87%) at Osaka Prefecture University - 大阪府立大学
English, Japanese, German
Github Skills (6)
kotlin10
rust10
google10
android10
firebase5
cli4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kantasv/unigokon-outdated-
Sep 2019 - Aug 2020
under construction
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
kantasv/opuscraping
Mar 2019 - Aug 2020
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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