Saki Okada

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Senior Data Engineer at Rakuten · Data pipelines

Rakuten
Tokyo, Japan · JST (UTC+9)
6+ years experience
Ateneo de Manila University
English, Japanese
Co-founder
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Overview

Senior Data Engineer at Rakuten, focused on data pipelines. Moved 63% of data platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Grew the data platform team from 3 to 19 engineers.

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  • People who want to build this with me
  • Questions about demand forecasting
  • Second opinions on Snowflake decisions
  • Working sessions on SQL
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Skills
SnowflakedbtAirflowKafkaSparkPythonSQL
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Need a design-minded co-founder: credit underwriting in MENA

The idea
Credit underwriting in MENA
Stage
Customer interviews
I bring
5 years in demand forecasting
Looking for
Technical co-founder who has shipped B2B software
Commitment
Full-time after funding
Location
Tokyo or remote

I bring 6 years of data pipelines (currently Rakuten). Ideally you've shipped B2B software. Have a working prototype and design partners.

Tokyo, Japanpythonsqlspark
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Experience

  1. Senior Data Engineer
    Feb 2026 - Present
    Rakuten · 8 mo · Full-time · Tokyo, Japan
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
    • Cut forecast error from 25% to 6% across 213 SKUs.
  2. Data Engineer
    Nov 2024 - Feb 2026
    Alibaba Group · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Tokyo, Japan
    • Cut forecast error from 20% to 10% across 2261 SKUs.
  3. Data Engineer
    Mar 2023 - Nov 2024
    Deloitte · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Tokyo, Japan
    • Cut forecast error from 19% to 11% across 3145 SKUs.
  4. Data Engineer
    Oct 2020 - Mar 2023
    Samsung Electronics · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Tokyo, Japan
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.

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Education

  1. Ateneo de Manila University
    BS, Electronics and Communication
    2016 - 2020

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