Yuichiro

About me

Born in Tokyo, raised in Osaka, and educated in France. Now I’m back in the capital of Japan.

In the early part of my career, I was driven by a mission to improve environments for medical professionals. I thought that the key to transforming hospital operations lay in modernizing the manufacturing sector that supplies them. By driving the digitalization of these manufacturers, I aimed to streamline the delivery of critical medical resources. I also built data science solutions for pharmaceutical companies to shed light on the market and the potential of drugs.

Today, alongside a team of top-tier talent, I’m building a SaaS product to enhance organizational cybersecurity, with a particular focus on defending against supply chain attacks.

I am driven by a strong passion to build, secure and make robust platforms that amplify the potential of human goodwill, creating a “frictionless” world where it safely reaches those who need it.

Education

I chose biomedical engineering as my specialty at university because I wanted to support friends and family who help people in hospitals from a technical perspective. Then, I decided to study in France where I could learn more broadly about engineering, technology, and social implementation.

Ecole Centrale de Lille

• Diplôme d’Ingénieur (Master level engineering degree)
• Double Master’s degree program certified by Top International Managers in Engineering (T.I.M.E.) association

Doshisha University

• Bachelor and Master of Biomedical Engineering
• Speciality: Biomaterials, Multi-scale Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis

Work Experience

Read more about my career story in Connecting the Dots (in My Case).

Founding Engineer | SliceCheese

• Building a B2B SaaS product to enhance organizational cybersecurity
• Focusing on defending against supply chain attacks
• Built an engineering team and the web application on a multi-cloud environment
• Designed the corporate information security governance for the ISMS (ISO/IEC 27001)
• Currently my role is more shifting to a SRE and security engineer
• Also, communicated with end users and business partners as an account executive
• Technologies: GCP, AWS, Azure, Cloudflare, Terraform, GitHub Actions, React(TypeScript), PostgreSQL, Python, Claude Code, etc.

Principal, Solutions Engineering | Norstella

• Developed new business opportunities for pharmaceutical firms and biotech startups
• Built data and AI solutions for competitive analysis and market prediction utilizing clinical trial reports and pharma pricing system
• Technologies: Snowflake, Python, OpenAI API, JavaScript (Observable) etc.

Career Break

• Prepared to start working as a freelance technology consultant

Technical Solutions Manager | Google

• Supported publishers using Google’s ad tech platform
• Performed technical troubleshooting on ad tech across web, mobile apps, and CTV platforms
• Updated workflows to align with new local regulations
• Supported other teams’ initiatives including Pixel 7 launch and professional consulting services
• Technologies: SQL, iOS (Swift), and Android (Java)

Strategic Technology Consultant | Gartner

• Advised clients on cybersecurity strategy, focusing on Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) for a major manufacturing client
• Provided technical support and integration guidance, particularly for OT systems and mobile application security

Associate Technology Consultant | PwC

• Supported 2 manufacturer clients from cloud transformation, IT/cloud governance design, and global digital business development
• Aside from classical consulting works, also developed 3 in-house/external digital tools for task automation
• Designed and conducted at least 3 1-day to 3-week internal training for technology consultant colleagues about agile, design thinking, prototyping, etc.
• Assigned as a reverse-mentor for a partner consultant
• Led a team of junior engineers to build a COVID-19 attendance visualization system and launched in 2 weeks
• Named as an inventor on a granted patent
• Technologies: React, GCP, GAS, iOS (Swift), PowerShell etc.

Internship

Project Member | Decathlon

• Junior member in market entry project leading to first store opening in Japan
• Conducted local sports goods market research to design store floor map
• Supported media team for branding across TV and social media
• Reviewed product translations
• Conducted customer reception in laboratory store

Project Manager Intern | Valeo

• Researched and reported quality assurance information for products by Taguchi method (statistical design optimization method)
• Defined and communicated approach among stakeholders in France and Japan
• Collaborated with on-site and off-shore simulation specialists
• Designed simulation plans, analyzed results, and reported insights
• Translated and shared methodology documentation in Japanese for French R&D members

Research Intern | University Regional Hospital Center

• Worked in cardiovascular-pulmonary ward
• Observed and reported structure of relationships between medical equipment manufacturers and medical departments

Research Fellow Intern | Nara Institute of Science and Technology

• Neural Cellular Morphogenesis Laboratory

Language

Japanese

• Mother tongue
• Grown up in Osaka, but usually hide Osaka dialect when not in Osaka
• Beginner in Ryukyuan (indigenous language in Okinawa)
• Also, picked up some Kyoto dialect through my 2-year school life in the ancient capital of Japan

French

• My 2nd mother tongue
• DELF B2 certified (by 2025 Autumn exam, ~800 points equivalent in TOEIC score)
• Acquired through 3-year survival life in France
• Still casually using for weekends when hanging out with friends in Tokyo
• Preparing for DALF C1 exam in 2026 Spring at the moment

English

• Primary working language
• C1-C2 class when I was in the language school in the UK
• Learnt intensively when I was in Europe because I knew that I would be supposed to be fluent in English in Japan even though I had learned everything in French in France
• Today working with 2 English native senior engineers all day day every day and I’m enjoying it
• Getting used to US west, Australian, South African, and Indian accents, but still feel difficult with US east, UK, Singaporean, and New Zealander accents

Chinese

• Language learning for a hobby
• HSK Level 3 (A2 ~ B1) certified
• Will aim a higher level, but focus on French and English right now
• Motivated by Taiwan: My mom (she is Okinawan) always told me that we and Taiwanese are like cousins and we have to stay in good term with them
• Another motivation is ShenZhen: Since I read The Hardware Hacker, I yearn for the gadget factory of the world and junk shops in oriental silicon valley

German

• Language learning for a hobby
• A2 level by self assessment
• Initially started learning for 1 year to find a job in Germany (At Siemens Healthineer. But decided to work at PwC in Tokyo afterward)

Skills

Soft Skills

• Leadership / Followship
• Risk management
• Negotiation
• Intercultural communication / Team building

Hard Skills

• Cloud computing: Google Cloud Platform
• CI and IaC: GitHub Actions, and Terraform (Terragrunt)
• Application: Basic web technology (HTML/CSS/JavaScript), React(TypeScript), and Python (FastAPI)

Awards and Certificates

• 2025 Registered Information Security Specialist (Only passed exam, currently waiting for registration in 2026 Spring)
• 2017 Challenge Imagine & Make
• 2016 Graduate School of Doshisha
• 2014 Bourse France Exellence Japon
• 2014 NAIST Fellowship

Interests

Reading, Hiking, Surfing, Piano, DIY