Takumi Yambe

As a director, AI enablement office, led Gen-AI strategy initiatives and drove PoCs across multiple business units in collaboration with leadership teams.

As a director, IT Strategy, led enterprise IT investment planning and governance, including annual operating and capital budgeting, budgeting principles, and investment execution policies. Also facilitated cross-functional initiatives and leadership discussions to align priorities and drive execution across the organization.

As a technical lead, led cross-cutting technical initiatives such as defining standards for system development and technical skills required for the organization.

As the head of engineering in BCG Digital Ventures Tokyo, managed the engineering team and worked on various projects. Focused on developing new businesses with our cooperate partners, also worked as an engineer whenever needed like writing code (sometimes) and setting up cloud infrastructure (often - AWS and Azure). https://www.careerinq.com/consulting/interview/digitalconsulting/bcgdigitalventures_2/011456.shtml https://mobility-transformation.com/magazine/bcgdv-2/ * This position is equivalent to Principal at BCG.

As a lead engineer, worked on projects to develop new businesses. Led cross functional teams to come up with new business concepts and led engineers to see technical feasibility. Also managed entire engineering cohort in Tokyo, connected the team to DV global engineering cohort.

As a hands-on manager, worked on leading projects which utilized topcoder. Also worked on supporting pre-sales, marketing events and recruiting. In addition to managing projects, developed software with LAMP stack and swift. https://enterprisezine.jp/article/detail/6483 * The company made a decision to stop the topcoder business in Japan in 2016.

As a community architect for topcoder community and platform, led some projects such as Go Learning Challenge (http://www.topcoder.com/blog/learn-golang-with-the-go-learning-challenge-series/). Learned and utilized newer technologies (golang, swift) in short term for the projects. https://japan.zdnet.com/article/35057719/2/

As a director of 2 divisions (50 to 100 employees in total), managed several senior managers and managers. One division is responsible for developing mobile social games which have millions of users, the other provides common foundations such as common libraries, software development tools, a big data and analytics platform. Also managed projects across divisions.

As one of the core members, worked on starting up the company in the Bay Area and establishing the agile development process. Responsible for backend systems for the company's social games and common social features. Helped hire local engineers and managers by giving technical interviews. https://next.rikunabi.com/tech/docs/ct_s03600.jsp?p=001893

As a hands-on engineering manager, managed about 20 engineers and implemented some backend's features. Responsible for the whole backend system of SNS and launching GREE platform. Succeeded in launching the platform in 6 months. 2009 engineering team MVP. https://next.rikunabi.com/tech/docs/ct_s03600.jsp?p=001779

As a software engineer, designed and implemented several backend features including a timeline system like Twitter and a simple framework to check online abuse. https://japan.cnet.com/extra/gree_200910/story/0,3800101257,20403572-2,00.htm https://jibun.atmarkit.co.jp/ad/comp/111mynavi/taiken/06/01.html

As a manager, led 6 teams of 30 engineers to design the ASP service for stock brokers. Designed the whole software architecture and various frameworks with Java EE. (The company was acquired and merged into CSK in 2005. Worked for CSK from 2005 to 2008)

As a lead engineer, led 5-10 engineers to design and implement systems for several online stock brokers. Worked on some web based systems and a backend system for PTS.

As a system engineer, designed and implemented several web based systems for some online stock brokers.