Shigeru Imai is a Principal Engineer based in Tokyo with 13 years of experience bridging data science, data engineering, and production software development. He brings a PhD-level research background from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to practical AI and data pipeline work, having built multimodal CTR models, vector search and chatbot systems, and production data flows on platforms like Palantir Foundry and GCP. At ABEJA he analyzed conversational sales data with LLMs and shipped recommendation and retrieval applications, and now leads engineering efforts at ORGO. Comfortable moving between research and product, he has deep expertise in streaming and spatiotemporal systems from his academic work and applies that to real-world retail and telematics use cases. An often-unseen strength is his ability to operationalize advanced models into maintainable pipelines that serve business objectives.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Master of Engineering - MEng at 東京工業大学
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Contributions:2 PRs, 40 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 3 months
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