Interview Article: What is the most Inspired Career Fly in Japan for international IT engineer at Diverta -vol.1

An interview with an international business person who makes own career at Japanese company as being a professional business expert.
The interview theme is [My Career Fly].
What is the motivation to work for them? Spotlight their career vision and motivation for work itself.

Mr. Low Ker Li  from Diverta
He is from Malaysia. To study at university he came to Japan. As a part-time worker, he joined Diverta while he was studying in university. After graduation, 2 years ago, he joined Diverta as a permanent employee. Now he leads the team of AI projects.

Mr. Amtel from Diverta
From France. He has about 3 years of working experience in France as a web application engineer. Now he leads the RCMS team, which is the main product of Diverta.

Japanese Uniqueness of Culture &Technology brought us here

CareerFly ( CF ) : Can you give a brief introduction?

Mr. Low Ker Li( L ): I am from Malaysia. I came to Japan to study at a Japanese university. While doing my course, I did a part-time job in Diverta and since then I have been associated with them for over two years. After my graduation, I started working full-time here. It's quite a nice and forward-looking company to work for.

Mr. Artem (A): I am from France. I was working in France for over 3 years as a consulting engineer & developer specialized in building web portals. Here at Diverta I'm working on our main product which is a global cloud-based aggregator of portals/websites, so it feels like an evolution of my career. I've initially started as a part-time employee while continuing my intensive course of Japanese in a language school. After finishing my language course I've transitioned to a full-time position. Recently I've hit the milestone of 3 years working with Diverta.

CF: Why Japan?

A : First, I wanted to get the experience of living in a country with a very different culture. European countries did not feel so different for me, so I decided to try out Asia. Ja-pan was a natural choice since I already was interested in Japanese culture for a while. I have initially planned to do only one year of working holiday, but after coming I've quickly realized that without understanding the language the experience would be quite pale - Japanese characters are literally everywhere and the general English level quite low. So I've enrolled on a Japanese language course after a couple of weeks.

L : I wanted to study Robotics and Japan being the best in that field, made me to opt for a Japanese university. I have been here for 5 years now.

We can focus on what to do because of our corporate culture

CF: What is your current project? What are you working on?

A : I am currently working as a lead tech on Diverta’s main product RCMS which is the cloud-based CMS that enables users to rapidly spin up a website with lots of features out of the box. We are constantly evolving it by adding features and updating technologies. Diverta is a 15-year-old company and unlike many Japanese companies, our boss, being an engineer himself, pushes us to embrace change and new technologies. Therefore it is exciting for us to be able to suggest and implement new features, tools or technologies, to have the freedom to improve whatever feels like needing improving, and as a developer, it is a constant flow of fresh air.

L : I mainly work on AI projects and lead the AI team. Aside from that, I am also a part of the RCMS modernization team where I share my ideas and opinions. Among the AI projects, I mainly work on the customer behavior analysis project.
I am in this project since the start, so I get to choose the technologies I think is the best fit for the problems.
In the AI projects, we leverage Deep Learning and Machine Learning technologies to solve some problems. However, there is a lot more than that, for example, building the data pipeline and visualizing the data.

Continuing to the Vol.2.......