(2025-Present)

Supporting Liquid AI’s Japan Region at the intersection of product, tech, & GTM

Guided foundational technical product strategy, fostered enterprise partnerships, and coordinated developer community events.

Built infra and tools to scale JP model development across new and existing applications. Post-trained (fine-tuning, preference alignment, etc.) Liquid AI’s proprietary non-transformer multimodal (text, audio, and vision) foundation models for JP open and enterprise releases.

(2021-2025)

Shaped and executed Mercari’s AI product strategy.

Proposed and developed AI systems and processes that delivered outsized business impact for Japan’s largest C2C e-commerce marketplace. Established foundational platforms, workflows, and engineering best practices for AI/LLM application development.

Acted as a unifying force across the organization, working throughout the company in multiple ad-hoc capacities to serve as the technical glue and social oil catalyzing the teams’ impact on our products and the overall Mercari customer experience.

FOSSASIA Summit 2025: LLMOps for Eval-Driven Development at Scale

Mercari @ Berlin Buzzwords 2024! A closeup.

Berlin Buzzwords 2024: Robust AI Search Ranking for Radical C2C Marketplace Growth

Berlin Buzzwords 2023: Building MLOps Infrastructure at Japan's Largest C2C E-Commerce Platform

(Mercari AI press release)

Weights & Biases Fully Connected Tokyo 2024: The Gen AI Powering the Next Generation of the Mercari Marketplace

(Weights & Biases Recap Blog Post)

Weights & Biases Fully Connected San Francisco 2024: How Mercari is Using Gen AI to Define the Future of Japanese C2C E-commerce

(Weights & Biases Recap Blog Post)

FOSSASIA Summit 2024: Unleashing the Potential of AI Through Search Ranking: How Mercari Uses Data & Science to Drive Marketplace Growth

FOSSASIA Summit 2023: The Bumpy Road of Bringing a Machine Learning Model From Development to Production - Part 2: Infrastructure, Testing, Productionalization, and Monitoring

(2018-2022)

Spearheaded SonoSim’s AI initiatives and established foundational backend development processes.

Led both the AI/ML and backend development teams behind the SonoSim® Ultrasound Training Solution. Built Sonosim's entire portfolio of AI/ML projects and established the company’s MLOps and DevOps best practices/processes.

Applying AI Towards Ultrasound Competency Assessment