Toshikazu Nakamura
Software Engineer at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolToshikazu Nakamura is a seasoned software engineer with 15 years of experience building large-scale ML and anti-abuse systems, currently improving the safety and quality of Google Search from Mountain View. He leads efforts to detect and remove scams from search results, designing query classifiers, result filters, and site-level scam detectors that prioritize user trust. Toshikazu also architects and implements production inference pipelines for SpamBrain and optimizes core spam-prevention components to reduce CPU usage and improve latency. His background spans C++ backend engineering for feature extraction, Python for model analysis, and applied data science in ad targeting and NLP from earlier roles. Holding a Ph.D. in Transportation/Mobility Management from the University of Tokyo, he brings a research mindset to production problems and a track record of shipping high-impact, large-scale systems. Colleagues value his blend of deep algorithmic thinking and pragmatic engineering that translates research into robust, efficient infrastructure.
15 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of Tokyo
Japanese, English
Github Skills (22)
javascript10
webrtc10
shutdown9
prefix8
adapter8
refs8
shim7
use-http7
plovr7
dockerfile7
editing6
native-code6
closure6
src6
interaction5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tednakamura/tedtest
Jan 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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