Technology

Dr. Toro's areas of expertise include Smart Manufacturing, Oil and Gas, Industrial Robotics, AR/VR, M2M Communication, AI, and Composable Digital Twins.
His experience spans for more than 20 years and includes different roles in Europe, APAC (Singapore) and LATAM. He has been distinguished with a Marie Curie research visitor grant funded by the EU Commission and his publications record is represented in 70+ published articles in high impact Journals and conferences.
His current work is centered on developing high impact solutions for customers of different domains with an agentic based approach where AI becomes the heart of the Digital Twin.

Executive IT Specialist/Senior Specialist. He has been involved in R & D and system development of systems utilizing parallel distributed processing and open source software. In recent years, he has been involved in research, technology development, and social implementation of secure data utilization and data linkage between companies.

Through the performance professional service "Makaseinou^®," he leads the solution of more than 100 performance problems per year.
He researches problem solving methods with the aim of realizing a world where systems are free from performance problems.

He has been engaged in business development and framework development across numerous projects in the public, financial, and corporate sectors. He is well-versed in software development, focusing on improving development productivity through architecture design and application frameworks, enhancing software quality, providing technical consulting, supporting development projects, and contributing to the nurturing of architect talent.

He has been involved in the development of financial institution system business applications and system infrastructure, as well as research and development related to software development automation. He is currently engaged in research, development, and promotion related to cloud technology and application infrastructure. He was selected as one of the AWS Top Engineers & Ambassadors from 2019 to 2023.

As a Development Platform Modernization Evangelist, I am actively engaged in modernizing the development environments for the NTT DATA Group. I am also actively involved in the automation field like giving lectures at various DevOps/DevSecOps technology-related events and writing for media outlets.

As an IT specialist, he has been engaged in the development and dissemination of internal development standards and project support centered on software architecture and processes. Since 2019, he has been responsible for technical development and the entire process from proposals to implementation of low-code platforms. Particularly with OutSystems, a leader in the low-code platform space, he has successfully led mission-critical projects in the financial sector. He also serves as an organizer of the OutSystems developer community, actively participating in activities such as planning and managing events as well as giving presentations. In 2024, he received the OutSystems MVP Award.

He joined NTT Data in 2017 and has been engaged in technology development and its field application based on software engineering expertise. Since 2020, he contributed to global software development projects by utilizing generative AI to improve software development efficiency. He was appointed as a member of the Software Engineering Research Group of the Information Processing Society of Japan in 2020, and has been serving as the secretary of the same research group since 2022. Major research achievements include the acceptance of a first-author paper at the international conference VLDB2021 and a presentation at IPSJ-ONE (2023).
BlackBelt Certified in Generative AI Technology.

Since joining the company, she has specialized in natural language processing, and has extensive experience in applying AI from legacy natural language processing to recent generation AI. He was involved in establishing a joint research center with the Chinese Academy of Sciences and conducted joint research. She has been involved in a wide range of fields, from technology development to technical consulting, and has carried out from start-up to deployment as a thought leader of NTT Data's SmartAgent™ concept, which is a concept for using generated AI.
BlackBelt Certified in Generative AI Technology.

He works to improve the reliability of AI in both practical and research aspects of AI engineering. He works on AI fairness as an Outpatient Researcher at the National Institute of Informatics and strives to establish in-house AI development methodologies. He is involved in creating security guidelines for machine learning systems at an official research meeting of the Japanese Society of Software Engineering. He has contributed to the realization of practical AI solutions by writing books on XAI and through technology verification through collaboration between companies.
BlackBelt Certified in Generative AI Technology.

• Engaged in research and development and project support for AI and data utilization.
• We provide a wide range of support, from upstream service planning and system planning to downstream implementation support such as the introduction and establishment of MLOps.
• Recently, I am engaged in the social implementation of services using generative AI.

BlackBelt Certified in Generative AI Technology.

Joined NTT DATA in 2007. As a senior R&D specialist, he is involved in R&D of AI technology, mainly natural language processing, and customer PoC. In recent years, he has been focusing on research and development of generative AI and well-being support using AI. He is also involved in nurturing many leaders as the head of NTT DATA's in-house AI school. In addition, he has published many research papers and serves as an editorial committee member for the Information Processing Society of Japan(IPSJ).
BlackBelt Certified in Generative AI Technology.

Since joining NTT DATA, he has been in charge of system grand design, package business planning, and data analysis and utilization projects for general corporations. Since 2019, he has been involved in the development of applied technologies that contribute to the practical application of AI and the research and development of AI quality management methodologies. Since 2021, he has been involved in the planning, implementation, and operation of an in-house AI risk management system, and has led the launch of the AI Governance Office, which oversees all NTT DATA. Through industry associations such as AIGA and FDUA, he has been promoting the dissemination of in-house AI governance implementation know-how and exchange of opinions.
BlackBelt Certified in Generative AI Technology.

He joined NTT DATA in 2006. As a software architect, he has mainly been involved in technical development related to web application frameworks and building application infrastructure for high-difficulty projects. Since 2020, he has been supporting the entire process from technical development to proposal and implementation related to iPaaS as a specialist. In particular, he has served as a technical leader in implementation projects for customers in the financial and social infrastructure sectors using Salesforce's MuleSoft. He also actively participates in alliance activities, such as giving presentations in the Partner Community.

Since around 1998, when he was a student at the Faculty of Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, he has been involved in providing technical information and promoting the use of Linux and open source software (OSS).
In 2001, he participated in the founding of an OSS-related system development company.
In 2003, he was engaged in training OSS engineers at the Linux Academy, an educational institution for working adults.
In 2009, he joined NTT DATA.
After launching the Apache Hadoop business, a parallel and distributed processing infrastructure software, he is currently involved in OSS technology research and business application.

Joined NTT DATA in 2002.
Engaged in R & D and technical support for open source data processing infrastructure.
Member of committer ⁄PMC for Apache Hadoop and Apache Bigtop.

Worked in the information security industry since 2000.
Discovered numerous vulnerabilities in well-known software such as Windows and Internet Explorer.
Responded to targeted malware at Trend Micro in 2013.
Became NTT Data Executive Security Analyst in 2019.
In recent years, he has been researching security measures using mathematical models and machine learning.

After working in brand agencies, business firms, and design firms in the U.S. and Japan, he joined Tangity's predecessor design team in January 2020 as head of design.
He has a wide range of challenges, from being involved as a player in various internal and external projects to conducting design direction.

He is engaged in R & D, project support, and technical support for database technologies, mainly PostgreSQL.
He is a committer of PostgreSQL and has contributed to the development of PostgreSQL OSS in a wide range of fields, including replication and full-text search.

BlackBelt Certified in Generative AI Technology.

BlackBelt Certified in Generative AI Technology.

Joined NTT DATA in 2022. Engaged in machine learning and data analysis projects and gained practical experience. Since 2023, he has focused on the area of generative AI, especially local LLM. He promotes technology verification and PoC with fine-tuning technology at its core, and approaches both model tuning and architecture design for business use. He continues to challenge at the forefront of technology and implementation to expand the potential of local LLM.
BlackBelt Certified in Generative AI Technology.

BlackBelt Certified in Generative AI Technology.