Aki — Staff Software Engineer at Treasure Data (Vancouver)
Experienced Japan IC track (Toshiba R&D → Cookpad → Cloudera) relocated to Vancouver via internal mobility at Treasure Data.
Staff Software Engineer · Vancouver · Treasure Data
Profile
Aki is a Staff Software Engineer (individual contributor) at Treasure Data in Vancouver.
Current role
Works on server-side code for a marketer-facing data platform, including data-pipeline generation, primarily with Rails. Earlier ML/NLP focus; recent work is more platform/backend.
Japan experience
Started in R&D at Toshiba (NLP / spoken dialogue), including product work such as scene classification from TV subtitles. Moved into product engineering at Cookpad (under ~3 years; e.g. side-dish recommendation), active in the Ruby community. Then ~2 years at Cloudera. Published O’Reilly’s practical ML book (writing spanned ~1 year of focused work after earlier drafts). Strong Japan-side engineering depth before relocation; exact Toshiba tenure years are not stated in the article.
Path to Canada / North America
Joined Treasure Data in Japan with relocation interest; negotiated internal relocation after proving impact (including after an ML team change). Relocated to Vancouver; about 2 years in Vancouver at interview time. Had been at Treasure Data roughly 6 years overall by then.
Outcome
Obtained permanent residency (PR) in December 2022, about 1 year 8 months after relocation (BCPNP process; company supported costs/docs).
Based on Frog’s Japanese-language interview. English summary for scanning (partners / employers). Original interview (Japanese)
Attribute route=transfer matches employer relocation.