Satoshi Yamada
Senior Director, AI & Data Science Division
Chiyoda, Japan
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Top SchoolSatoshi Yamada is a senior AI and data science leader with 15 years of engineering experience and over eight years managing AI/ML teams at SoftBank, now serving as Senior Director of the AI & Data Science Division. He has led production-grade NLP and computer vision systems—chatbots, OCR for invoice automation, face verification, and various image-anomaly/segmentation PoCs—while building an internal MLOps/ML API platform on Kubernetes. Fluent in Python and TypeScript, he also brings hands-on exposure to C, Objective-C, Perl, Java and Ruby, and holds a TOEIC 980, enabling effective bilingual collaboration. He has driven measurable product wins (e.g., a face verification model that outperformed a third-party competitor) and patented an internal ensemble algorithm for text classification. Known for scaling teams of up to 60 members, he combines technical depth with people-first management that accelerates junior talent. Based in Chiyoda, Japan, he balances research-quality modeling with operational rigor to take ML projects from prototype to reliable service.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
学士, 環境情報学部, 学士, 環境情報学部 at 慶應義塾大学
Github Skills (62)
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kafka-streams10
vector10
kafka-connect9
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dcos9
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kubernetes-operator9
pipeline9
sdk9
openshift9
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apache-kafka9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
tgib23/tgib23.github.io
Nov 2015 - Nov 2021
Contributions:58 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 1 month
tgib23/pict_share
Jan 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:11 PRs, 9 pushes, 15 branches in 2 years 10 months
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