Kent Katsumata Portfolio

About Me

Committed to empowering software developers in harnessing the potential of AWS through the design and implementation of serverless architectures and related areas, drawing upon a wealth of front-end and back-end development knowledge.
Actively engaged in dual roles at AWS and also at Life is Tech, Japan's leading EdTech startup. Embarked on the journey as an instructor at Life is Tech, subsequently advancing to the positions of in-house software engineer and curriculum director.
Proven capabilities in leadership, idea generation, multitasking, and problem-solving across various projects. Fluent in both English and Japanese, with a specialization in serverless computing, ubiquitous computing, and machine learning.

Project
Management

UI/UX
Design

Prototyping

Development

Team Lead

Education

2020/09 ~ 2022/09
Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University
Cyber Informatics Program
Member of Nakazawa and Okoshi Lab.

2016/09 ~ 2020/09
Keio University Faculty of Environment and Information Studies
Member of Jin Nakazawa/Jun Murai Joint Lab.
Leader of Computing for Human Well-being Research Group

2003 ~ 2016
St. Mary’s International School
High School Diploma
Honor Roll Awards: Design Technology, Japanese, Music

Experience

2023/04 ~ Present
Amazon Web Services Japan G.K.
Cloud Support Engineer
Handles and resolves high severity outages for large enterprises. Employs architectural best practices and advanced troubleshooting techniques to provide tailored solutions that address the distinct requirements of customers.

2019/04 ~ 2023/03
Life is Tech USA, Inc.
Senior Instructor / Launching Team Member / Service Design
Launching member of Life is Tech USA. Involved in product development especially the storytelling and narrative strategies of “Disney Codeillusion”, an online coding tutorial coproduced with Disney.

2017/05 ~ 2023/03
Life is Tech, Inc.
Curriculum Director (Web Service, Life is Tech ! Lesson) / Mentor (Instructor)
Oversee and motivate a team who are in charge of curriculum development and operations for Web Service Programming Course. / Curriculum development of Life is Tech ! Lesson, Japan's No.1 programming curriculum for schools.

2020/09 ~ 2020/09
Yahoo Japan Corporation
Summer Internship / iOS Development
Worked on implementing a new feature for the Yahoo! JAPAN iOS app.

Skill

Swift
iOS Development

Python
Django, Data Science, ML

Unity C#
AR/MR Development

HTML / CSS / JS
Bootstrap, p5.js

Dart
Flutter Development

Adobe
Ps, Ai, Xd, Pr, Ae

Award/Publication

Award of Excellence, SPAJAM Hackathon 2020 Qualification Round 3
First Place, Smart Hackathon by ZENRIN 2019
First place, High School Business Idea Competition 2015
Finalist and awarded Hikari TV Award, Teens Apps Award 2015

K.Katsumata, Y.Honda, T.Okoshi, and J.Nakazawa. 2023. COVIDGuardian: A Machine Learning approach for detecting the Three Cs. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 147–150.

K.Katsumata, Y.Noda, N.Isokawa, S.Katayama, T.Okoshi and J.Nakazawa, “SleepThermo: The affect of in-cloth monitored body temperature change during sleep on human well-being.” in Proceedings of The 2019 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing Adjunct Publication – UbiComp ’19 United Kingdom, London Adjunct, 2019, pp. 1602–1607

K.Katsumata, Y.Eigen, Y.Noda, M.Tsuruoka, S.Hashiba, S.Numoto, S.Katayama, T.Okoshi, and J.Nakazawa, “Motivating Long-term Dietary Habit Modification through Mobile MR Gamification" In Proceedings of the 17th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys ’19 South Korea, Seoul). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 671-672.