Kyle Mede
Principal Product Manager at Rakuten
Chiyoda, Japan
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Top SchoolKyle Mede is a Principal Product Manager and AI leader at Rakuten with 12 years of experience bridging ML research, data science, and product strategy to deliver mission‑critical internal platforms like geo‑intelligence, fraud controls, and logistics optimization. He combines a PhD in data science and a background building scientific instrumentation with hands‑on product work, uniquely shaping explainable, measurable AI systems and company‑wide model documentation standards. At Rakuten he partners with VP/SVP leaders to set funding and roadmaps while building the customer insight loop for agentic conversational AI that focuses on actually resolving user problems. Quietly influential, he has repeatedly turned research prototypes into reliable platforms relied on across the company and led initiatives that standardize how models are documented and measured. Based in Chiyoda, Tokyo, he brings a researcher's rigor to executive strategy and team‑level execution, ensuring decisions are driven by customer signals and measurable outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSc with Cooperative Education., Physics & Astronomy, BSc with Cooperative Education., Physics & Astronomy at University of VictoriaUniversity of TokyoPhysics, Physics at Vancouver Island University
Japanese, English
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Github Skills (24)
radial10
planet10
orbit10
orbital10
cosmology9
toolbox9
simulation9
orbital-mechanics9
velocity9
astrodynamics8
reduction7
eclipse6
monte-carlo6
documentation6
parallel-processing6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kylemede/ExoSOFT
Feb 2016 - May 2020
The Exoplanet Simple Orbit Fitting Toolbox (ExoSOFT). Solves for the orbital elements of any single companion, provided observed radial velocity and/or astrometry.
Contributions:1 release, 208 commits, 2 PRs in 4 years 4 months
radialradial-velocityplanetelementstoolbox
kylemede/Udemy-CS-alg-interview-prep
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:29 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
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