Shinichi Fujikawa
Japan
CAREER Enrolled in April 2013; Completed doctoral degree in September 2017
Although I worked for a long time as a developer in the web industry, I wanted to acquire the intellectual skills to design web services by myself and had been thinking about entering a graduate school. The sale of the web service I had been running created the opportunity for me to enroll in the doctoral program at the Graduate School of Media Design (KMD).
I currently work at BASE, Inc., a company that offers a platform called “BASE” which enables customers to operate an internet shop free of charge. I joined the executive board as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) while enrolled at KMD. I have also been focusing on recruiting developers, and I wrote my dissertation on research that produces a trust score for a developer’s skills based on a social network service that is used by developers called GitHub. Internet-based trust scores has garnered greater attention in recent years, and I was able to immediately put the knowledge I gained from my research into practice in my daily work.
I draw on the supervision style of my lecturers for management as well. I learned a style of supervision which reviews the output of subordinates who have been entrusted with individual problems as a method that ensures they rigorously think things over. I enjoyed the privilege of being a working student at KMD in a program that influences my job in this way.
(This article was written in March 2019.)
