Naoto Minami
Senior Software Engineer - Search, AI at Sansan株式会社
Chiyoda, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolNaoto Minami is a senior software engineer specializing in search and AI with about nine years of experience building large-scale e-commerce search platforms and ML infrastructure. He has deep hands-on expertise with Apache Solr—developing plugins for learning-to-rank, semantic and diversity search, operating SolrCloud clusters, and integrating LLMs into search. Currently at Sansan he’s developing search and AI chat capabilities for contract documents while also contributing to a dataspace project for circular economy use-cases. His background spans MLOps, big data and distributed systems, and he combines production-grade engineering with research-informed solutions from a Master’s in Computer Engineering. Notably, he has a track record of consulting across product teams to translate complex ranking and search requirements into scalable implementations.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Engineering at 筑波大学Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at 大分工業高等専門学校 専攻科Foundation degree, Computer Engineering, Foundation degree, Computer Engineering at 大分工業高等専門学校
Github Skills (58)
similarity-search10
transformers10
lucene10
pytorch10
language-model10
python10
nearest-neighbors10
machine-learning10
information-retrieval10
similarity10
solr10
seq2seq10
java10
flax10
edifact10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
chlorochrule/solrcloud-development-box
Jun 2021 - Feb 2023
Development environment for Solr, SolrCloud using Docker, Docker compose
Contributions:5 reviews, 33 PRs, 21 pushes in 1 year 8 months
solrsolrclouddockercomposedocker-compose
chlorochrule/dotfiles
Feb 2018 - Jul 2024
Contributions:67 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 6 months
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