Kohei Watanabe

Kohei Watanabe has a diverse work experience starting with their current role as a Software Developer at Woven by Toyota since 2022. Before that, they worked at KDDI Corporation as a Software Developer from 2018 to 2022. Prior to that, they were a Data Analysis Part-timer at 株式会社アイズファクトリー from 2015 to 2018, where they analyzed various types of data using machine learning models and implemented them using Python. Kohei also had an internship as an Artificial Intelligence Researcher at Rakuten Institute of Technology in 2017, where they created bandit algorithms to optimize machine learning model hyperparameters. Additionally, they had a short internship as a Mechanical Engineer at JTEKT CORPORATION Japan in 2013.

Kohei Watanabe's education history begins in 2012 when they enrolled at The University of Tokyo for their Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree in Mechano-Informatics. Kohei completed this program in 2016. Following their undergraduate studies, Kohei pursued a Master of Science (M.S.) degree in Mechano-Infomatics (Computer Vision) at The University of Tokyo from 2016 to 2018.

In terms of additional certifications, Kohei obtained several qualifications. In 2021, they became an AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty through Amazon Web Services (AWS). Additionally, they obtained certifications in Modernizing Data Lakes and Data Warehouses with GCP, Building Resilient Streaming Analytics Systems on GCP, and Smart Analytics, Machine Learning, and AI on GCP through Coursera in September of the same year. Furthermore, they achieved the Database Specialist certification from the Information-Technology Promotion Agency, Japan (IPA) in December 2021.

Kohei continued to expand their skills and knowledge by obtaining the title of Professional Data Engineer from Google in December 2021. Further certifications include the Fundamentals for Istio by Solo.io in November 2022 and the Apache Kafka Series - Learn Apache Kafka for Beginners v3 from Udemy in August 2022. Additionally, they passed the Registered Information Security Specialist exam conducted by the Information-Technology Promotion Agency, Japan (IPA) in June 2023. While the specific month and year of completion are not provided for two remaining certifications on Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Fundamentals and Building Batch Data Pipelines on GCP, it can be inferred that they acquired these certifications at some point preceding the other certifications.