Akiko Yokoyama

I’m Aki from Tokyo, Japan, Sales Engineer & Partner Enablement Manager. I was a Software Engineer for 12 years, then a Senior Consultant for 2 years before joining the company.

Knowledge and Experience:

• AI based IT Strategy and Pre-sales of Solutions POC projects and Project Management (Consulting) over 1.5 years
• Enterprise Pre Sales (B2B) over 2year
• Business Consulting over 2 years
• Business Alliance and negotiate project
• Participate in the launch of the JV and Open Innovation Promotion Office
• Worked at famous Venture Capital
• Joined Business Contest and Famous Accelerator Program
• Software Engineer/Consulting over 12 years (in Independent, Direct-contract 8 years)
• Development Project Manager (PM) / Manager of Development division / Lead Engineer / over 5 years
• Ruby On Rails / Perl Programming over 6 years.
• iOS CasualGame Programming over 2.5 years.
• Over 5 million user’s Social Game Programming, Lead engineer, Development Operations over 1 year.

Currently Focusing On:

• AI based IT consulting strategy, Pre-sales, Standardization of technology, Open Innovation, New Business Development, Project Management, Consulting Agile & Lean Startup
• Ruby On Rails and Perl developer with solid theoretical background
• I’m also interested in Consulting, AI, New Business Development, R&D, VR/AR.

Currently Work With:

• AI-based Solution’s Sales and Support Partnership-based Sales.
• Support to Develop and Research AI strategy
• Computer Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Sketch
• Language : Japanese & English

Specialties: - Programming Languages:

Perl, Ruby, PHP, Python, C, Objective-C, Swift, JavaScript, C#, VBA, Scheme
  - Web Frameworks : Ruby On Rails, Django, Flask, Plack, Catalyst, CGI::Application
  - Game/MediaArt Frameworks: Cocos2d, Unity, OpenFrameworks
  - PC & Mobile web service Development
  - iOS/Android Social Game Development (PHP, Objective-C)

Conference talks:

- 2010: YAPC::Asia 2010 - "Perl and Me Connection (40 min.)"
- 2010: Mashup Caravan Girls Talks - "Develop the web Mashup service by Python newest Framework"
- 2010: Perl Casual#2 - "Vim Loves Perl (20min.) "
- 2009: Another Yokohama.pm in YAPC::Asia 2009 Pre Paty - "Enything like AnyEvent"
- 2009: Perl Casual#1 - "Untitled"
- 2008: Shibuya Perl Mongers #10 - Moxy at Dwango
- 2008: Yokohama.pm #8 - "Untitled"

Honor & Award

• Mashup Award 6 — “Special Jury Prize: Dan kogai 404 api not found Award” for codetype.org - Dec 2010
  • “Mashup Award” is the largest Web service & Apps’s Contest in Japan by Recruit Holdings Co.,Ltd. .
    • I developed the codetype.org in one night, total 20 hours. I received the Special Jury Prize by Mr. Dan Kogai from Mashup Award 6.
    • It was made by Flask, Python’s Minimum web Framework.
  • media url: 『Mashup Awards 6』授賞式開催！最優秀賞は『育児日記 EmiriSystem』 - 週刊アスキー
  • media url: 「Mashup Awards 6」授賞式～勝間和代、小飼弾氏も特別審査員で参加 -INTERNET Watch Watch

Publications:

• Software Design Vol. April, 2013 - Feature1: “Introduction to Programming from the back door”
  • “Software Design” is famous Tech-Magazine for Japanese Engineers.
  • One of Feature ones. Some software engineers can do the job well from the other industries.
  • I wrote the “my Programming’s breakthrough”.
  • URL: Software Design 2013年4月号｜技術評論社
• WEB+DB PRESS Vol.61 - “Perl Hacker Hub No.7” (Relay serialization)
  • “WEB+DB PRESS” is most of famous Tech-Magazine for Japanese Engineers.
  • I wrote “Perl’s basic knowledge for programming beginners”. I’ve been think about many people are sometime give up in perl beginner. Because actually I realized Perl has some way of difficult. For example, for setup the develop environments & to understand of Perl’s Reference in Perl programming beginners.
  • I focus on the most difficulty point of “easy modern setup CPAN/cpanm” and “Perl’s Reference” ( like Pointer in C Language ).
  • URL:
    • Vol.1 : 第7回　新人さんのための仕事で使えるPerl基礎知識（1）：Perl Hackers Hub｜gihyo.jp … 技術評論社
    • Vol.2 : 第7回　新人さんのための仕事で使えるPerl基礎知識（2）：Perl Hackers Hub｜gihyo.jp … 技術評論社
    • Vol.3 : 第7回　新人さんのための仕事で使えるPerl基礎知識（3）：Perl Hackers Hub｜gihyo.jp … 技術評論社

Japanese summary is here. Heart Beat » About me.