IT Senior

Payment E-Commerce Head/Lead of Engineering Java Golang Python

1. Could you introduce yourself and tell us about you? Your current / recent jobs and employers? Previous companies and jobs?  He has about 14 years of experience now in the IT industry, started with software development and also the maintenance side. During the first years of his career, he was mostly a backend developer and very hands on with the development side of things. For the last 8 years, he has been into managing teams as a Team Lead and currently had an opportunity with XXXX as the Head of Engineering where he built teams of the organization from scratch including the engineering department consisting of frontend/backend engineers, mobile app developers, DevOps engineers, QA engineers, and such. On the tech stack side, he has worked on various technologies including Java for most of his career, along with Golang, Python for backend, and on the side of architecture, he’s proficient with product architectures, project cycle definition/prioritization, and just keeping the team involved healthy together as a Team Lead. Most of his experiences are coming from payments and e-commerce industry, has worked with order management systems, card design, and other related products. 2. What skill(s) / experience would you self-describe as strongest or specialist in?  Strongest skill would be working on end-to-end product including managing the team, executing his hands-on experience with the product, defining the product from scratch, and deliver to the organization with best quality; he’s good basically from the first line of code to the mature level of the product up to deployment and maintenance. On top of that, he can also be involved with the recruitment and building up of teams, identifying people with the right skill set, and all.

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Data Analytics AI ML Spark Hadoop Big Data Technologies Software Engineering Manager

1. Could you introduce yourself and tell us about you? Your current / recent jobs and employers? Previous companies and jobs?  He has around 16 years of experience in software development and is currently a Senior Software Engineering Manager for XXXX; he has a team of around 25 people including architect, backend engineers, data engineers, DevOps, QA, and UI engineers, also have 3 engineering managers under him. They are currently building a SaaS product focusing on data analytics and he’s the one taking the product requirements from product management, do research and development before releasing them to the customers. Before this, he was with XXXX as a Software Engineering Manager where he again handled several teams managing different projects and before this, was with XXXX as a Software Engineering Manager II where he handled about 2 teams working on ADC and ADM as a Service, both hosted in AWS. He has about 8 years of experience doing leadership and managerial roles and so far has led a team of 14-40 people as a manager. He started off as a Software Engineer for XXXX where he developed agents for reporting and monitoring of infrastructure devices and components such as AIX, Solaris, Linux, Windows, and others. 2. What skill(s) / experience would you self-describe as strongest or specialist in?  Strongest skill would be working on the data analytics, AI & ML side since he has been doing this for the last 2 years. He is also good in building data-related products and is proficient with all data analytics tools such as Spark, Hadoop, and all the other big data technologies including Airflow, Snowflake, EMR, Red Shift, as well as cloud technologies.

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Payment, Banking, Finance, Delivery Manager, Solution Architect

1. Could you introduce yourself and tell us about you? Your current / recent jobs and employers? Previous companies and jobs?  He has been into IT industry for about 20 years now and his work has been revolving around the banking and financial services business. He was with XXXX previously for quite a long time and has supported them with their core banking products, he was part of the development production support and implementation back then, basically all the lifecycle of software development. Later on, he moved to some companies where he worked with investment bank projects like XXXX and for the last four years of his career, he has been mainly into the payment domain and supporting major clients in Japan; he is also involved with enhancements, new infrastructure, and new modernization in banks. 2. What skill(s) / experience would you self-describe as strongest or specialist in?  Strongest skill would be his customer-facing skills and his ability to sell things and ideas to customers together with his background in the banking and payment sector. He can go to clients confidently and pitch his ideas or implementation while at the same time, understanding their own infrastructure systems and what they really need for their business. Industry wise, his niche would be in the banking, financial sector, and is open for fintech and related industries as well. Currently, he is involved in both technical and management side, and can say he handles 50% of each.

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KYC, Operations, Client Onboarding, Financial, Fintech, Banking

1. Could you introduce yourself and tell us about you? Your current / recent jobs and employers? Previous companies and jobs?  She has been working in the KYC area for about 10 years now and is currently working with XXXX with Operations, Client Onbooarding, and KYC team. She is responsible here for any changes occurring for existing clients such as company name, address, and others; she also supports the client onboarding team in Tokyo and India where they outsource some of their functions. Aside from that, she also do negative screening, coordination with compliance department, and any screening aspects. She also worked with XXXX where she mostly reached out to businesses and clients to obtain their required documents for onboarding, KYC review, and tax document renewals. Also was with XXXX as a KYC Analyst where she completed KYC profiles for medium and high risk clients including Fintech clients and such. Before this, she was working in the back office area in operations as well including settlement, corporate action, and client services; has worked with XXXX, XXXX, and XXXX. 2. What skill(s) / experience would you self-describe as strongest or specialist in?  Strongest skill would be client management and coordination with various departments. She’s also good with time management and has worked in project-related function with teams both locally and overseas including Tokyo, Singapore, Hong Kong, and India. She also has good leadership skills and has handled team members previously. Industry wise, she has a great background within finance and banking sectors.

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Hotel, Hospitality, Sales, Marketing, Operations

1. Could you introduce yourself and tell us about you? Your current / recent jobs and employers? Previous companies and jobs?  His career background is within the hotel industry, has spent more than 30 years in hotel management and operations; also has 9 years of experience as a performance consultant for hotel management. The earlier years of his career were spent outside Japan but since he came back, he joined XXXX as a General Manager, mostly managed full compliance to hotel operating controls and such. After that, he joined XXXX in Niseko where he managed more than 90 suites and penthouses residential hotels before moving to XXXX as a Director of Operations. Afterwards, he joined XXXX in Otaru and moved to Fukui with XXXX as a General Manager where he had to leave due to a surgery. He is now with XXXX as a Hospitality Manager where he is in charge of the financial performance of the hotel from day-to-day, month to date, and year to date against their budget and discuss with managers and department heads if there are any areas that needs attention; apart from that, he is also involved with giving the best guest experience, reviewing their comments and feedback, and discuss with department heads on what and which to implement. Lastly, he also works on the operation side and attend to special requirements, prepare for guest arrival and mainly back of the house operational environment. 2. What skill(s) / experience would you self-describe as strongest or specialist in?  Strongest skill would be his ability in sales and marketing since he initially came from that background, mainly for hotels. Also, good with operational management and has been doing this for more than 30 years now.

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Automotive, ADAS, Telematics, Validation Area, Lead Engineer, Product Technical Lead

1. Could you introduce yourself and tell us about you? Your current / recent jobs and employers? Previous companies and jobs?  He is currently working with XXXX as their Lead Engineer, he’s responsible there for the telematics area including being component and function owner. He’s also responsible there for the cybersecurity area and leadership perspective; he mostly works with test engineers and acts as the verification leader. Previously, he was with XXXX as a Product Technical Leader where he was part of the system validation team for front camera projects for a Japanese OEM Honda customer, and also has worked with XXXX as a System Engineer and Software Engineer where he worked for vehicle diagnostics project and later on, was assigned with Central Gateway projects as well. His main responsibility back then was in the validation area of central gateways ECU. 2. What skill(s) / experience would you self-describe as strongest or specialist in?  Strongest skill would be his overall technical knowledge within the electrical architecture area. He has worked in multiple areas such as ADAS, telematics, and other areas of electrical. He’s also strong with his system knowledge, validation, mostly in the automotive industry.

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