Ikuru K reviewed their life from June 2014 through June 2015, noting several milestones: they graduated college with honors in robotics engineering, got their first job at TCS Japan working in an airline migration project, learned basic web and Python skills, and acquired their FE and AP certifications. For future goals from June 2015 to June 2016, Ikuru aims to master the Spring framework, learn Clojure and contribute to open source projects, and obtain higher-level certifications in embedded systems, networking, and information security while working to improve weaknesses in personality like public speaking ability and laziness.

1. Review of
June 2014 through June 2015
Ikuru K

2. Purpose
● Review my life so that I can spend a better
year.

3. Mile Stones:
● Graduated from college
● Got my first Job @ TCS Japan
● Picked up basic web application techniques
● Picked up basic python
● Picked up git & github skills
● Got assigned to my first project
● Certifications (FE & AP)

4. Graduated From College
● B.S. Robotics Engineering
● Finished in 3 years
● Honors in class

5. First Job @ TCS Japan
● Overwhelming numbers of domain and services
that TCS covers.
● Many opportunities, many challenges
● Exciting, but there is a lot to learn.

6. Basic web application
● Learned during Initial learning program:
– Java
– MySql
– JSP
– Deploy on Tomcat
– Java Script/CSS/HTML

7. Basic Python
● Many built-in, implicit features; code looks nicer.
– PyUnit testing framework is awesome.
● Test loader that automatically discovers test cases
● TestResult class to display them nicely.
● Would like to get more hands wet with:
– Lambda's
– Sockets
– JSON/XML libraries.
● Currently prototyping an English-Japanese translation
system

8. Experience with basic Git
● Conclusion is, svn should go extinct and be
replaced with git.
– Svn capability is pretty much a subset of git
– Its really good that branches are cheap; can segregate
workspaces amongst individuals.
– Already seeing some shortcomings of svn in working
environment:
● Easy to commit garbage to main line
● If active maintainer of the repo goes, development slows down
● If server goes, development slows down

9. First Project in TCS
● Domain = Airline client & PSS migration project
● Technology = Spring framework & SOAP based
web service
● Must learn:
– SOAP mock services
– Hibernate
– Spring
– Domain specifics

10. Acquired Certifications
● Fundamental of Information Technology Engineer
Examination
● Applied Information Technology Engineer Examination
– Full day exams
– Studied really, really hard. AP exam had open ended, non-
trivial questions
– Issued by Governmental Entity In Japan
– Essentially proves that I am literate with software
development concepts, but does not go beyond asserting
technical competency

11. Technical Goals
June 2015 ~ June 2016
● Master Spring Framework
● Catch up with speed on embedded systems and machine learning
● Learn clojure: everyone who knows it well says its awesome, so going
to give it a try.
● Finish the python powered EN-JP translation system.
● Contribute to FOSS in any way that I can. (Combat my shyness)
● Higher level certifications out of (Also look up for ones with value):
– Embedded System Specialist
– Network Specialist
– Information Security Specialist
● Create action plans and review this at end of period

12. Personality Issues that
I would like to combat
● Currently:
– Not well spoken
– Not Proactive
– Lazy
– Does not spend time wisely
– Loves comfort zones
– Short attention span for tasks that have less appeal
● Find a way to make them interesting
● Create a mechanism to make such tasks disappear from the universe
● Do not passively complain; be active
● Create action plans and review this at end of period

13. ● Thanks