Shota Yamamoto
Software Engineer
Koto
Summary
Motivated Master's student in Computer Science at Waseda University with multiple internships and research experiences in machine learning and software engineering. Skilled across frontend, backend, and infrastructure development, with a strong focus on building practical, scalable systems.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
ML Engineer
EpicAI Inc.
08.2024 - Current
- Developed RL models and heuristics algorithm for vehicle routing problems
- Improved code quality and team efficiency by automating tests, defining PR rules, and organizing documentation
Research Internship
AIST, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
09.2023 - Current
- Developed a ROS2-based testbed system controlling 100+ robots
- Presented a poster at Robomech 2024 and submitted a paper to the Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics (under review)
- Conducting research on Vision-Language-Action models for quadruped robots
1-week SWE Internship
Nikkei Inc.
08.2023 - 08.2023
- Proposed and implemented a UI/UX redesign for a news article component using React
2-week SRE Internship
EXNOA LLC
08.2023 - 08.2023
- Deployed and managed applications on AWS and GCP using Terraform and Kubernetes
2-week SWE Internship
PKSHA Technology Inc.
08.2023 - 08.2023
- Built a RAG-based chatbot for retrieving internal documents and chat history, using the Go, Python and AWS
QA Engineer Internship
Couger Inc.
05.2021 - 07.2023
- Developed internal tools and automated analysis tasks using Python and Electron
Education
Master - Computer Science
Waseda University
04.2001 -
Bachelor - Computer Science
Waseda University
03-2025
Skills
- Python
- Pytorch
- C/C
- Go
- JavaScript/TypeScript/React
- SQL
- Linux
- Git
- AWS/GCP/Terraform/Docker/Kubernetes
- Japanese (Native)
- Chinese (Native)
- English (Business)
Timeline
ML Engineer
EpicAI Inc.
08.2024 - Current
Research Internship
AIST, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
09.2023 - Current
1-week SWE Internship
Nikkei Inc.
08.2023 - 08.2023
2-week SRE Internship
EXNOA LLC
08.2023 - 08.2023
2-week SWE Internship
PKSHA Technology Inc.
08.2023 - 08.2023
QA Engineer Internship
Couger Inc.
05.2021 - 07.2023
Master - Computer Science
Waseda University
04.2001 -
Bachelor - Computer Science
Waseda University
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