JAMES HAYASHI
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東京 · Tokyo
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NEURAL ARCHITECT · 東京 TOKYO · V.04AIアーキテクト・東京・V.04
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Synthesizing
Intelligence.
Honoring
Tradition.
知性
紡ぎ、
伝統
敬う。

I'm James Hayashi — a Lead AI Engineer with a decade architecting multi-agent systems, advanced RAG, and cloud-native AI infrastructure. I build systems that respect the "Ma" of information — where precision logic meets the organic flow of human intuition. 林 ジェームスと申します。 マルチエージェント先端RAGクラウドネイティブAI基盤の設計を十年。 情報の「」を尊重し、 精密な論理と人間の直感が交わる場所を、丹精に築きます。

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LIVE · NODE A6-TXR-99
LAT 35.6895°N · 139.6917°E · 東京
System
Operational · 0.04ms
Location
35.6895°N · 139.6917°E
Current Deployment現在の展開 Autonomous Multi-Agent Platform · v1.2自律マルチエージェント基盤・v1.2
timeline Tenure
10+
Years Engineering AI Systems
schema Scale
5M+
Knowledge Graph Entities Modeled
trending_down Impact
75%
Manual Intervention Reduced at Scale
LangGraph CrewAI Multi-Agent RAG GraphRAG QLoRA Fine-tuning vLLM · TensorRT-LLM Amazon Neptune SageMaker Azure Event Hubs BigQuery Pinecone · Redis LangSmith · TruLens Kubernetes (EKS)
01 · Manifesto & Mastery01・信条と練磨

The Path of
Precision.
精緻なる
道程。

Portrait of James Hayashi, Lead AI Engineer, standing by a window in a quiet Tokyo cafe on an overcast afternoon, holding a ceramic coffee mug and glancing out toward the street
In Studio · 東京
Calligraphy · Code · 墨印
Lead AI Engineer · ForthClover LLC
Est. 2013

The Philosophy流儀

I progressed from foundational software engineering at Cybozu Global to leading AI strategy, R&D, and cross-functional teams across PreScouter, A2 Healthcare, and Septeni Holdings. Today, I architect autonomous multi-agent platforms that reduce manual enterprise work by 75%. サイボウズ・グローバルでの基盤開発から始まり、 PreScouterA2ヘルスケアセプテーニ・ホールディングスにてAI戦略、R&D、 機能横断チームを率いてきました。現在は、企業の手作業を75%削減する 自律マルチエージェント基盤を設計しています。

In the space where ink meets paper, there is no room for hesitation. I apply this same Zen-like clarity to high-performance AI — every line of code is a brush stroke, deliberate and efficient. My methodology blends the rigor of Kintsugi (strength through refinement) with the cold precision of silicon engineering. 墨が紙と出会う瞬間に、迷いの余地はありません。私は同じ禅の明晰さを 高性能AIに注ぎます——一行のコードは、一筆の筆跡。意図を持ち、効率を備える。 私の方法論は、金継ぎ(錬磨による強さ)の厳しさと、 シリコン工学の冷徹な精度を、静かに結びます。

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"Precision is not the absence of art — it is the most refined form of it." 「精度とは、芸術の不在ではない——その最も練り上げられた形である。」

— Working Principle · 墨印— 仕事の信条・墨印
Profile [ 2026 ]
Role
Lead AI Engineer
Studio
ForthClover LLC
Base
Tokyo · 東京
Mode
Remote / Hybrid
Status
Accepting Briefs
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02 · Technical Arsenal02・技術の蔵

The Craft
& the Silicon.
と、
シリコンと。

hub
01 / Domain

AI & Machine Learning

[ PRIMARY ]

Generative AI systems at production scale — from LLM applications to multi-agent orchestration, advanced RAG, and knowledge graphs tuned for domain accuracy.

LLMs · LangGraph · CrewAI · Multi-Agent Systems 0.98 PRECISION
Advanced RAG · GraphRAG · Re-ranking · Semantic Routing +40% ACCURACY
Fine-Tuning · QLoRA · Llama 3 · Mistral -60% COST
LLMOps · LangSmith · TruLens · Guardrails PROD GRADE
Knowledge Graphs · Neptune · NLP 5M+ ENTITIES
cloud
02 / Domain

Cloud & Data

[ Aizome ]

Tri-cloud native — shipping distributed AI on AWS, Azure, and GCP. Real-time ETL, vector databases, and serverless architectures deployed in regulated environments (HIPAA).

Stack
AWS SageMaker
Neptune
Azure Event Hubs
Functions
GCP BigQuery
Warehouse
Pinecone · Redis
Vector / Cache
Kubernetes · EKS
3× Throughput
vLLM · TensorRT-LLM
Inference
code
03 / Core Tech

Languages & Tools

Python JavaScript SQL C++ Java
DevOps
Git Docker TDD Power BI MapReduce
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04 / Practice

Leadership

  • AI Solution Architecture & strategic technical roadmaps
  • Mentoring AI engineering teams · +25% deployment velocity
  • Executive stakeholder translation & cross-functional influence
  • HIPAA compliance, Agile delivery, research sprint planning

"The most sophisticated intelligence is not just powerful, but balanced."

Technical Philosophy
03 · Career Ledger03・歩みの記録

Linear Unfolding
of Intelligence.
知性
軌跡。

hub Sep 2025 — Present · Remote

Lead AI Engineer

ForthClover LLC

Enterprise Autonomous Multi-Agent Orchestration Platform

Architected a distributed multi-agent system on LangGraph + CrewAI. Engineered GraphRAG with cross-encoder re-ranking over 50 TB of unstructured data.

  • 75% less manual intervention via multi-agent orchestration
  • 40% higher retrieval accuracy across 50 TB with GraphRAG
  • 60% lower API cost via Llama 3 / Mistral fine-tune (QLoRA)
  • inference speedup on vLLM + TensorRT-LLM / EKS
  • Planner–Critic–Executor agents with Pinecone + Redis long-term memory
analytics Apr 2024 — Jul 2025 · Tokyo, JP

Research & Development Lead

Septeni Holdings

AI-Powered Marketing Insights Engine

Led multi-agent system on Azure with LangGraph; automated 80% of analytical workflows and set the technical roadmap for the AI engineering team.

  • 80% of analytical tasks automated
  • 90% faster report creation via reasoning agent
  • 95% precision on RAG + Power BI query responses
  • 25% faster team deployment velocity (mentorship)
  • Zero-latency BigQuery ingestion via Event Hubs + Functions
health_and_safety Mar 2023 — Mar 2024 · Tokyo, JP

Lead AI Engineer

A2 Healthcare

Autonomous Clinical Workflow & Patient Engagement Platform

End-to-end HIPAA-compliant multi-agent LLM system with a safety co-pilot reducing hallucinations on critical medical queries to under 0.1%.

  • 40% faster patient intake & processing
  • 98% accuracy on medical term extraction (RAG)
  • <0.1% hallucination rate via safety co-pilot
  • 30% higher first-contact resolution with HITL escalation
  • Trusted bridge between engineering and clinical teams
schema Sep 2019 — Mar 2023 · Remote

AI Solution Architect

PreScouter

Biomedical Knowledge Graph & Insights Engine

Serverless AWS Kinesis pipeline ingesting 100 K+ scientific documents, powering a biomedical knowledge graph of 5 M+ entities in Amazon Neptune.

  • 95% less manual data handling (serverless ETL)
  • 5M+ entities · 20M+ relationships
  • 70% higher factual accuracy on Llama2 Q&A
  • 25% faster MVP delivery
  • Interactive graph visualization UI for clinical teams
code Jun 2013 — Dec 2016 · Tokyo, JP

Software Engineer

Cybozu Global

Advertising Data · Distributed Systems Foundation

The foundation. Core advertising data pipelines in Python, client-facing dashboards in JavaScript, and an anomaly-detection prototype that identified system incidents 30% faster than manual methods.

  • 15% higher pipeline processing efficiency (Python)
  • 50% smaller bug queue on owned internal tool
  • 30% faster incident detection (anomaly ML)
  • Bigtable · MapReduce · TDD · C++ / Java / Python
  • First exposure to ML-driven system observability
Intermission · 間奏間奏・Intermission

俳句

A pause
between systems.
システム
あわいに。

Seventeen syllables — 5 · 7 · 5. A haiku holds the entire shape of attention. For an engineer, it is the cleanest function ever written: input the moment, output the truth. 十七音の俳句には、注意そのものの形が宿る。エンジニアにとって、 それは最も清らかな関数である——瞬間を入力し、真実を出力する。

Composed · April 2026詠・二〇二六年四月
By James Hayashi, for quiet mornings in Shibuya.林 ジェームス・渋谷の静かな朝に。
静けさや コードに宿る 春の音
Translation · 訳
Stillness —
in the code, quietly
the sound of spring.
5 · 7 · 5
04 · Selected Artifacts04・厳選された制作

Digital Artifacts
of Intelligence.
知性
遺作。

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hub 01 / Multi-Agent · 2025 FORTHCLOVER

Enterprise Autonomous
Multi-Agent Platform

A distributed swarm of specialised agents — Planner, Critic, Executor — that automate complex enterprise workflows end-to-end with stateful long-term memory.

LangGraph CrewAI GraphRAG vLLM EKS
—75%
Manual Work
Inference Speed
98%
Accuracy
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Dark analytics dashboard with white data curves and red highlight node
analytics SEPTENI · 2024
02 / Marketing AI Azure

Marketing Insights Engine

A reasoning agent that auto-generates weekly client performance reviews, cutting report creation by 90% while preserving analytical rigor.

—90%
Report Creation Time
LangGraph · BigQuery · Power BI
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schema 03 / Knowledge Graph · 2021
Biomedical knowledge graph with thousands of interconnected nodes and a central red focal node
5M+ ENTITIES

Biomedical Knowledge Graph

5M+ entities and 20M+ relationships in Amazon Neptune, fed by a serverless Kinesis pipeline processing 100K+ scientific documents.

Neptune SageMaker Kinesis
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Minimalist illustration of a red torii gate guarding a heartbeat waveform, symbolizing clinical AI safety
health_and_safety 04 / HIPAA · 2023

Clinical Safety Co-Pilot

A supervisor agent watching the primary medical LLM — reducing hallucinations on critical queries from industry-standard >3% down to under 0.1%.

<0.1%
Hallucination Rate
+30%
FCR
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Black sumi-e brush waveform with a single red anomaly spike
monitoring 05 / Origins · 2016

Anomaly Detection Tool

A prototype at Cybozu that identified system incidents 30% faster than manual methods. The seed of a decade in AI.

"We reject the black-box approach. Every line of code is a brush stroke — deliberate, impactful, beautiful in its efficiency."

Methodology
05 · Foundations & Interests05・礎と地平

Roots & Horizons. 根、地平。

Education
2017 — 2019
M.Sc.

Master of Science, Computer Science

Nagoya Institute of Technology · 名古屋工業大学
2009 — 2013
B.Sc.

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

Nagoya Institute of Technology · 名古屋工業大学
Off-Screen
趣味
  • pool
    Swimming
    Discipline
  • directions_run
    Jogging
    Rhythm
  • forest
    Conservation
    Environment
  • palette
    Art
    Perspective
06 · Transmission06・伝達

連絡

Contact the Archive. 記録へ、
一筆を。

Whether for collaborative research, architecture review, or a new AI engagement — I welcome the transmission of your intent. 共同研究、設計レビュー、新たなAI案件——どのような形であれ、 貴方の意図を、静かに受け取ります。

Direct Frequency直通の周波数
james@forthclover.tech
Base of Operations拠点
Tokyo, Japan · 東京東京・日本
LAT 35.6895°N · LONG 139.6917°E
Current Availability現在の受付状況
Accepting select AI engagements選りすぐりのAI案件を受付中
Network繋がり
拝啓 Haikei · With Respect

A letter begins with a greeting. In Japanese correspondence, 拝啓 opens the page — an invitation to meet, carefully. 文は挨拶より始まる。日本の手紙では、拝啓が 頁を開く——丹念に出会うための、招きである。

敬具
Keigu · Yours sincerely敬具・謹んで
A reply is composed within 48 hours — carefully, in proper seasonal form. 返信は四十八時間以内に、丁寧な時候の挨拶を添えて差し上げます。
Stamp & Send · 押印押印して送る