Sho Akiyama
Engineering Manager, AI LLM Team at Mercari, Inc.
Chiyoda, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolSho Akiyama is an engineering manager and hands-on ML/full-stack engineer with eight years of experience building production LLM and embeddings platforms at Mercari and earlier startups. He blends technical leadership in MLOps, Triton inference, feature stores and cross-team ML integrations with a strong product sensibility from frontend/backend work and UI/UX design. Sho has led embedding platformization, LLM productionization and experimentation pipelines while also stepping into interim people and program management to scale teams. Unusually for an engineer, he writes and directs anime—creating a startup-and-VC themed film and producing a serialized comic project that informed dataset and pipeline work for 2D animation. Fluent in Japanese and English and experienced across cloud providers and Kubernetes, he focuses on pragmatic systems that make ML usable for product teams. His profile reflects a rare mix of creative direction, design-driven engineering, and delivery of robust ML infrastructure.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of the Philippines Rural High SchoolBS Computer Science, Computer Science, BS Computer Science, Computer Science at University of the Philippines
English, Japanese
Github Skills (68)
siggraph10
posters10
django9
stylegan9
sentry9
kubeflow-pipelines8
pipeline8
monitoring8
python8
kubeflow8
hugo8
crash-reports8
machine-learning8
super-resolution8
devops8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
remote-startup-senpai/cartoongan-pytorch
Sep 2020 - Apr 2022
Experimental CartoonGAN (Chen et.al.) implementation for quicker background generation for posters and new episodes
Contributions:1 review, 11 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 6 months
styleganepisodeschensuper-resolutionsiggraph
remote-startup-senpai/website
Jun 2020 - May 2022
アニメ「ベンチャー」公式サイト・Venture Anime Website
Contributions:2 releases, 41 commits, 25 PRs in 1 year 11 months
nextjsventureanime
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