Merry Christmas, everyone! \u30e1\u30ea\u30fc\u30af\u30ea\u30b9\u30de\u30b9!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You might have noticed my website has been silent since June 2025.However, this silence wasn’t empty\u2014it was a necessary pause.I stepped back from the daily grind of coding to answer a bigger question: What is the next step for an IT\/DATA Engineer in the era of AI?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The catalyst for this break was actually an “unfinished” idea. Before leaving my previous project, I was fascinated by a Proof of Concept (PoC) involving AI-assisted log keyword extraction using Regex<\/strong>. It was a challenging problem: how to combine the determinism of engineering with the probabilistic nature of AI. Although I didn’t get the chance to implement it fully at the time, the problem stuck with me. So, I decided to take a gap period. For the past six months, I haven’t been “unemployed”; I have been re-educating myself<\/strong>. This blog will document my journey from the industry back to academia. It might be a steep climb, but I am ready.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here\u2019s to clarity, hard work, and making dreams come true in 2026. Merry Christmas, everyone! \u30e1\u30ea\u30fc\u30af\u30ea\u30b9\u30de\u30b9! You might have not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carrack.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carrack.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carrack.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carrack.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carrack.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carrack.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245,"href":"https:\/\/carrack.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carrack.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carrack.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carrack.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
It made me realize a gap in my own career. My undergraduate major was Telecommunications, not Computer Science. While I have accumulated years of hands-on experience with GCP and data pipelines, I often felt the need for a stronger theoretical foundation to truly solve complex, data-centric problems\u2014not just as an engineer who uses tools, but as a researcher who understands them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I spent this time improving my English proficiency to bridge the gap to the global academic community, while searching for a master’s program that values both industrial experience and academic potential.
As of this December, the fog has cleared.
I have set my sights on a specific goal: a university in Tokyo that I have admired since my high school days.<\/strong> It is a place where engineering meets rigorous science, and I am determined to be a part of it.
My mission for the immediate future is clear: <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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