CV
Akira Chiku
GitHub / Speakerdeck / akira.chiku@gmail.com / Tokyo, Japan
QUALIFICATIONS
- https://github.com/achiku
- Fluent in Python/Go/SQL/shell script
- Solid understanding for relational database
EXPERIENCE
- Kanmu, Inc., Tokyo, Japan (2018/11 - present) as a Chief Operationg Officer
- GTM strategy/market survey/CRM/customer acquisition/customer support/depth interview/revenue management
- Kanmu, Inc., Tokyo, Japan (2013/11 - 2018/11) as a Backend Software Engineer
- Tokyo based startup providing app based prepaid card service + card-linked offer (CLO)
- Backend/Infrastfucture Engineer (Prepaid Card Service) (2015/01 - present)
- Conducted/designed user interviews for prepaid card service
- Built Python version of prototype for user interviews
- Designed base architecure of the backend infrastructure using AWS
- Automated server provisioning using Ansible
- Automated AWS operations using terraform
- Built Go version of prototype, and led development of backend API server
- Designed RDBMS tables, and schema management operation using SQLAlchemy + Alembic
- Led collaboration with external API vendors
- Consultant for Credit Card Company (2014/10 - 2014/12)
- Designed/built system for large data analytics using AWS EMR(Hadoop/Hive) + Presto + R
- Cleaned, re-formatted 1TB of data for analysis
- Created model to predict certain behaviors of credi card users
- Wrote report, and led meetings with clients
- Backend/Infrastfucture Engineer (Card Linked Offer) (2013/11 - 2015/11)
- Developed admin web application using Django
- Built offer scoring system using Redis, MySQL, Python, Flask
- MySQL Performance tuning
- Backend/Infrastfucture Engineer (Vandle Card) (2015/12 - 2018/11)
- Developed Visa Prepaid Card App prototype backend using Python/Flask
- Designed and built AWS infrastructure using Ansible/terraform
- Designed and built API server using Go/PostgreSQL
- Designed PCI DSS compliant architecture design and its annual process with consultants
- Developed a payment processing system accesing VisaNet
- Accenture Japan, Tokyo, Japan (2008/08 - 2013/11)
- Leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
- Consultant, Global SCM Development Phase Project for Global SPA (2012/04 - 2013/09)
- Consultant, Global POS Conception Phase Project for Global SPA (2011/11 - 2012/04)
- Consultant, Data Warehouse/Inventory Management Development Phase Project for Global SPA (2010/07 - 2011/10)
- Analyst, Consumer Electronics Company Middleware Upgrade Project (2009/04 - 2010/07)
- Analyst, Telecommunication BPR Middleware Upgrade Project (2009/12 - 2010/03)
- Analyst, Data Warehouse Development Phase Project for Japanese GMS (2008/11 - 2009/11)
EDUCATION
- Bachelor of Arts Economics, Minor in Mathematics The University of Texas at Austin (2008)