Hikaru Ikebe

Software Developer who ships reliable, user focused products end to end.

New York, NY, USA

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About

Software/ML Engineer with experience across backend services, data pipelines, applications, and Crypto. I take ownership from design to production, collaborate closely with product and stakeholders, and deliver maintainable systems with measurable impact. Current focus: Rust, JSON, TypeScript, React, Node.js, cloud-native architectures, and AI developments.

Work Experience

Amazon Web Services
Hybrid

2024 - Current

Software Development Engineer

Design, build, and maintain production services and internal tooling. Partner with product and senior engineers to scope features, implement resilient APIs, and uphold code quality through testing, reviews, and CI/CD. Drive performance, reliability, and security best practices.
Technologies: React, REST API, Java, TypeScript

Amazon Ads
Hybrid

2023 - 2023

Software Development Engineer Intern

Developed a data pipeline for advertisement technologies that successfully ingests over 100 million Amazon user IDs in the US market. Collaborated with senior engineers and product manager to future-proof product and pushed project to production.
Technologies: AWS, Python, TypeScript, SQL, Spark

Amazon Ads
Hybrid

2022 - 2022

Software Development Engineer Intern

Constructed cache pipeline to process data for users opting out of targeted advertisements. Architected a system that successfully reads 1 million QPS and writes 15 QPS in US and European markets.
Technologies: AWS, Java, TypeScript, CI/CD

The University of Tokyo
Hybrid

2020 - 2021

Machine Learning Research Assistant

Researched CNNs and Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) for edge deployment. Improved accuracy of vanilla BNN by 0.8% while reducing computation parameters by 73% on CIFAR-10.
Technologies: Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, CUDA

Education

Columbia University in the City of New York

Master of Science, Computer Science

The University of Texas at Austin

Bachelor of Science, Biomedical Engineering

Skills

Rust
Java
JavaScript
TypeScript
SQL
JSON
Go
C
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Git
Spark
NumPy
Pandas
OpenCV
PyTorch
TensorFlow
MongoDB
CUDA
React
Express
NodeJS

Projects

ZYTO — Execution AI (Coming Soon)

World’s first Execution AI. Create workflows at the speed of conversation; orchestrates actions across apps via connectors and a community marketplace. Shipping soon.

TypeScript
Next.js
Node
React
Rust
JavaScript
JSON

Tabelog 100

React web app that introduces exclusive top 100 award-winning restaurants in Japan across multiple cuisines/genres.

CI/CD
JavaScript
React
Node
Express
SQL
Big Data
Web Scraping

GoParkMe

Full-stack web app that navigates clients to vacant parking spots detected via live CCTV streams using Mask-RCNN.

AWS
CI/CD
Python
Computer Vision
Big Data

Photo Album Web Application

Photo album web app with text/voice search powered by CV and NLP for intelligent media retrieval.

AWS
CI/CD
Python
JavaScript
Computer Vision
Big Data

NYC Restaurant Recommender

Chatbot leveraging Yelp API data to recommend restaurants based on user preferences.

AWS
Python
Big Data

Self Driving Car

Neural-network-driven agent that learns to navigate traffic; built from scratch in JavaScript.

Side Project
JavaScript

Smart Snake

Reinforcement learning project using Deep Q-Learning to master the classic Snake game.

Side Project
Python
PyTorch

Cryptopoly: Hoya Hack 2022 Build-a-Game Track Winner

Multiplayer, cryptocurrency-themed Monopoly. Property values tied to real-time crypto prices.

Hackathon
JavaScript
HTML/CSS