Ken Takagiwa

The Apache Software Foundation / Spark contributorKanagawa

Ken Takagiwa

The Apache Software Foundation / Spark contributor

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Ken is a full stack engineer but focusing backend. He has worked several startups and big company since he was a freshman. He has experienced design, marketing, programming in these startups. He was selected to Cisco International Internship Program(CIIP) in 2013. CIIP gathers outstanding students from all over the world and lets them work CiscoHQ as a full time internship for one year. He worked under Enterprise Network Gear - Software Defined Network.

Ambition

In the future

Build a tech startup in Silicon Valley which changes the world.

The Apache Software Foundation8 years

Spark contributorPresent

May 2014 - Present

Apache Spark is a fast and general engine for large-scale data processing. It provides rich API(Scala/Java, Python) and good documentations. I am mainly contributing to Python API for Spark Streaming.

Codeal,inc10 years

Chief Architect(co-founder)Present

Aug 2012 - Present

• Launched three different job matching sites in the IT field: "Engineer Intern"(URL: http://engineer-intern.jp/), “Engineer Shukatu”(URL: http://engineer-shukatu.jp/) and “Engineer Tenshoku”(URL: http://engineer-tenshoku.jp/) .

Keio University Graduate School

MS Computer Science

Aug 2016

Researching about Deep Packet Inspection and DataBase

Engineer Intern
Interop Traffic Analytics dashboard
コデアル
Apache Spark
Contributing Python API for SparkStreaming. https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/2538 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-2377

CEA - Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives4 months

research intern(Intern)

Sep 2015 - Dec 2015

Developed IoT gateway to manage heterogenious sensors Desgined architecture for scalibility Implemented distributed search for IoT sensors

Internet Initiative Japan2 months

Research Intern

Jul 2015 - Aug 2015

Evaluate Active Queue Management and Explicit Congestion Notification toward HTTP live streaming such as Mpeg Dash. Develop a Golang client for concurrent requests which scale thousands of clients.

Cisco systems1 year

Software engineer (Intern)

Jul 2013 - Jul 2014

• Be in charge of release and build for Application Policy Infrastructure Controller-Enterprise Module (APIC-EM), SDN controller application for enterprise, and managed team infrastructure to let our team develop seamlessly in Cloud Virtualization Group (CVG).

Keio University

BS System Design Engineering

Mar 2013

Be in charge of all technical matter in Horiemon(Takafumi Horie) lecture in Mitasai 2010 Managed Internet Business Research Group as the president in 2010 Managed GENE as the president in 2011

Sunbridge Global Venture Habitat3 months

Marketing assistant (Intern)

Nov 2011 - Jan 2012

• Interviewed with the CEOs of 20 IT startups as a part of marketing research project and discovered the latest trend of startup companies in Plug and Play Tech Center, an incubation center. • Analyzed the incubation trend in Silicon Valley and recommended to improve env

Burning Galaxy, inc3 years

Web creator(Intern)

Apr 2009 - Jul 2011

• Developed and maintained a portal donation site, which raised 1,150 dollars donation for non-profit organizations (NPO) in 2010. • Redesigned and implemented most of frontend of the donation site.