Yusuke Sakamoto
Staff AI Engineer at Gauss Labs
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYusuke Sakamoto is a Staff AI Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 13 years of experience building and leading data science teams to deliver enterprise-scale ML systems. He has deep domain expertise in network intelligence and WiFi analytics, having driven production pipelines that process terabytes daily and improved network efficiency by up to 200%. At Plume he delivered LLM-driven root-cause analysis, automated WiFi insights, churn prediction, and real-time outage detection that directly influenced product and retention strategies. Comfortable both as a hands-on engineer and a technical manager, he balances architecture, people leadership, and measurable business outcomes. His academic background (Ph.D./M.Sc. in computational science and mathematics) underpins a rigorous, quantitative approach to applied ML. An active open-source contributor, he has also enhanced user-facing tooling—improving terminal-based Reddit browsing UX—demonstrating curiosity beyond core infrastructure work.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D Computational Science Engineering and Mathematics, Ph.D Computational Science Engineering and Mathematics at The Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of TexasB.A. Mathematics Molecular Biology and Integrated Science Program, B.A. Mathematics Molecular Biology and Integrated Science Program at Northwestern University
Japanese
Github Skills (7)
curses10
r-api10
terminal-ui10
terminal-application10
python10
user-interface9
documentation7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
michael-lazar/rtv
Mar 2015 - Aug 2015
Browse Reddit from your terminal
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 13 PRs, 32 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Yusuke primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the Reddit terminal viewer (rtv). Their contributions include adding a help message, implementing comment/reply functionality, and integrating page up/down navigation. They also made improvements to the display message system, added login functionality, and incorporated sorting features, enhancing the overall user experience within the terminal.
redditpythonterminalreddit-clientcommand-line
yskmt/navier_stokes_multigrid
Apr 2013 - May 2013
Contributions:51 commits in 20 days
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