Genki Ikeda

About

I have worked on full-stack web and cloud development since 2019. Across startups and nonprofits, I have translated business goals and budgets into requirements, specifications, and architecture, then carried the work through development and operation.

Since 2024 I have focused on building products with generative AI. I led generative AI products as CTO and tech lead at a startup, and founded 0ai Inc. in January 2026 to build and deliver AI-enabled ways of working, including Deprex, which redesigns company operations and organizational structures around AI.

I also delegate in-house development and implementation in client environments to Mipockle, the autonomous development agent I build. I focus on goals and important decisions while the agent handles requirements, implementation, verification, and coordination with teammates.

Mipockle — autonomous development agent

Mipockle carries context from Slack, development tickets, documents, and meetings through requirements, implementation, verification with real data, and coordination with teammates. I design, build, and operate the system that lets it work continuously using Claude Code and Codex.

• Implementation is delegated

  I rarely drive the terminal (TUI) myself to implement anything.

• So is upstream communication

  The upstream communication that development needs — talking with teammates, confirming specifications — is handled by AI as well. The only part I do myself is attending the actual meetings.

• From meetings to follow-through

  Meeting content goes to the AI too, carrying agreements and decision context into later work. It organizes responsibilities and dependencies and moves through clarification, implementation, and handoff.

Counted from GitHub records as of November 9, 2026, 06:25 JST. Includes feature development, improvements, and memory and configuration updates.

1. Understand the work and requirements

   Cross-check Slack, tickets, documents, and meetings to identify my responsibilities, agreements, and open questions, then define the change from the goal and expected outcome.

2. Design and implementation

   Study existing code and specifications, create an issue, pull request, and isolated workspace for each change, and implement with dependencies in mind. An independent reviewer checks important design decisions.

3. Verify real data and outputs

   Beyond tests, check incomplete input, resuming interrupted work, and actual rendering and output. A reviewer without the authoring conversation checks the result against the expected outcome.

4. Coordination and review responses

   Within the delegated scope, handle requirements questions, progress updates, deliverable announcements, and review responses in Slack, then continue fixing and verifying from feedback.

5. Continuous execution and handoff

   Always-on processes check requests and replies and resume work as dependencies clear. For my own products, they handle merge and cleanup; in other teams, they follow the agreed approval and release process.

6. Memory and continuous improvement

   Retain agreements, decision context, and open questions for later work. Improve procedures from results and feedback, then check the outcomes in subsequent runs.

About Mipockle, the autonomous development agent

Experience

1. Jan 2026 – Present

   0ai Inc.

   Founder

   • Developing and delivering Deprex to help companies become AI-native by redesigning operations and organizational structures around AI. I use each customer’s business goals, decision criteria, and budget to design, implement, and continuously improve human and AI roles, cross-functional workflows, and the operating environment.
   • In clinic marketing, designed autonomous operations spanning production, approvals, publishing, and stakeholder coordination while retaining required human decisions. Implemented ongoing Instagram operations and am gradually extending adoption to YouTube workflow coordination.
   • Automated the workflow from Meta advertising data analysis through planning and ad creative production. Also automated video editing, connecting analysis with content production.
   • Automated back-office operations with AI, including bookkeeping, labor administration, year-end accounting, and tax filing.
   • For a sales outsourcing company, designed and implemented an AI research workflow that prioritizes fit with the offering and the contact’s responsibilities, current information, and supporting evidence. Developing sales lists for informed prospecting and validating the workflow on sample cases.
   • Starting with individual workflows, the goal is an organization where AI also supports the planning and progress management of human work. I work alongside customers from discovery through implementation, operation, and redesign, reducing routine instructions and checks concentrated on executives and opening up different choices about staffing, outsourcing, hiring, and growth strategy.
   • Designed and developed Envoy, an AI meeting assistant that joins Google Meet through voice or an avatar, with real-time transcription, discussion analysis, contextual information, and spoken responses. It connects company knowledge and task-executing agents to turn meeting requests into research and action, continuing work after the meeting ends.
   • Building personal AI assistants that carry context from users’ work and everyday lives into action.
   • Designed, built, and operate the autonomous development system behind the company’s own work, connecting requirements, implementation, verification, and ongoing improvement.

   Languages & development

   PythonTypeScriptJavaScriptNode.jsClaude CodeCodexPiMCPGitHubGitHub ActionsuvpytestVitest

   LLMs & image generation

   Claude APIOpenAI APIGemini APIGLMKimiJevGroqGPT ImageGrok

   Voice & meeting agents

   VexaRecall.aiElevenLabsScribeWhisperFish AudioQwen3-TTSPipecatWebRTCWebSocket

   Media processing & inference

   SeedanceRemotionFFmpegPyAVOpenCVPillowNumPyRapidOCRONNX RuntimeMLXPyTorch

   Web & server

   ReactAstroViteTailwind CSSThree.jsi18nextFastAPIaiohttpStarletteUvicorn

   Cloud, data & authentication

   Google Cloud RunGoogle Cloud StorageFirebase AuthenticationFirestoreCloudflare WorkersCloudflare PagesCloudflare AccessCloudflare Durable ObjectsCloudflare KVSQLiteTerraformDockerOAuth 2.0Bitwarden Secrets ManagerAuth0BitwardenGCPFirebaseCloudflare

   Business integrations & browser automation

   Slack APIGoogle Workspace APIMeta Marketing APIInstagram Graph APIYouTube Data APICanva MCPJina ReaderPlaywrightagent-browserfreeeGoogle AnalyticsMicrosoft ClarityCanvaTwilio

2. Oct 2025 – Dec 2026 (planned end)

   SaaS company serving the pharmaceutical industry

   AI Engineer (contract)

   • Designed and implemented an AI agent system for pharmaceutical content production, enabling team-wide operations from web, slide, and video production through client delivery.
   • Responsible for AI technology research, prototype validation, and system and API cost estimates, evaluating architectures against production requirements, output quality, and execution costs.
   • Implemented recursive revision to meet pharmaceutical compliance requirements. Built a Claude Code-based framework connecting agent design and implementation with evaluation and recursive improvement.

   TypeScriptReactRemotionPythonLangGraphLangfuseAWSTerraformHeyGenElevenLabsSeedance

3. Mar 2024 – May 2025

   Startup

   CTO / Tech Lead (full-time; seconded as a director to a subsidiary)

   • As CTO and tech lead, helped launch generative AI services for video analysis and automated production, as well as a grief-tech service at a subsidiary. Initially built the web application, APIs, and infrastructure on my own, then led a three-person team as product owner.
   • Worked with business executives and frontline users to clarify requirements, issues, and schedules and translate them into a roadmap and priorities. Fed user feedback into planning and handled requirements, specification checks, code reviews, and team task management.
   • Selected a serverless-first architecture for the PoC’s budget and workload characteristics, running long or compute-intensive tasks only when needed. Established Terraform and GitHub Actions deployment in two weeks and reduced infrastructure costs to roughly one fifth of an always-on setup.
   • Set up prompt management and output validation so non-engineers could participate in refinement. Automated YouTube production and publishing delivered about 300 videos and 350,000 total views in the first three weeks.

   PythonFastAPILangChainLangGraphLangSmithNext.jsAWSTerraformGemini API

4. Jul 2023 – Mar 2024

   Asset management company

   Web Engineer (freelance)

   • Joined development of a robo-advisor investment service. Delivered changes for regulatory program updates while keeping existing business logic and interface specifications consistent.
   • Refactored complex interface architecture to separate business logic from the UI, making ongoing changes easier to maintain.
   • Contributed to organizational and development-process improvements that raised team velocity and throughput by about 2.5×. Took turns as Scrum Master and collaborated in English with international teammates.

   ReactRecoilAWS AmplifyPythonFastAPI

5. Aug 2021 – Aug 2024

   Education nonprofit

   Engineer (freelance, sole developer)

   • Built a new reservation and operations-management system for an education nonprofit as its sole engineer, covering requirements, architecture, implementation, integration testing, and operation.
   • Selected serverless and data architectures based on how students and administrators worked, expected traffic, and cost. Built a setup suited to the operating scale and handled environment migration and changes to the data platform.
   • Established infrastructure as code for development and production, CI/CD, centralized API specifications, automated testing of critical workflows, and failure alerts, creating a foundation one engineer could continue to develop and operate.

   ReactNext.jsPythonFastAPIAWS LambdaDynamoDBServerless FrameworkGitHub Actions

6. Apr 2023 – May 2023

   Automotive services company

   Mobile App Engineer (freelance)

   • Worked from requirements and specifications through implementation on a mobile app integrating automotive services. Was subsequently assigned upstream specification work to support the wider team.
   • Collaborated closely with decision-makers to clarify the service redesign and requirements, combining them into cross-screen specifications from a UX perspective and refining them until teammates could start implementation.

   FlutterFirebase

7. Mar 2022 – Mar 2023

   Sake e-commerce startup

   Full-Stack Engineer (freelance)

   • Worked across requirements, UI/UX design, testing, and release for new e-commerce and mobile applications. Communicated directly with decision-makers to turn business needs into concrete specifications.
   • Designed and implemented the wider service experience, including peak-traffic handling, localization, and SEO, and handled web, iOS, and Android development and releases.
   • Used Google Analytics device data and Microsoft Clarity usage observations to identify target environments and UX issues and inform interface and product-improvement decisions.
   • Covered specification decisions and team scheduling when the lead was absent. Proposed knowledge-sharing and retrospective sessions and contributed to better coordination and development practices.

   Next.jsShopifyFlutterAWS

8. Nov 2021 – Feb 2022

   Financial company in Singapore

   Web Engineer (freelance)

   • Joined a financial trading service in Singapore to improve an existing system, focusing on refactoring, bug fixes, and ongoing maintenance.
   • Handled most of a large localization effort independently and implemented access management reflecting user and operator responsibilities.

   VuePHPAWS

9. Jan 2021 – Oct 2021

   Software development agency

   Frontend Engineer (freelance)

   • Joined the early development of web and mobile applications for parents of students at an online tutoring school, focusing on frontend development.
   • Identified gaps in specifications and helped clarify them before implementation. Supported delivery and quality through specification and implementation advice, code reviews, and team task management.

   ReactTypeScriptReact Native

10. Feb 2019 – Dec 2020

    IT company developing its own products

    Full-Stack Engineer

    • Worked across requirements, UI/UX design, frontend, backend, infrastructure, and testing to launch an in-house RPA product and its web management system.
    • Compared language characteristics and performance against the team’s budget and use cases, taking responsibility for technology selection and architecture design.
    • Designed access models, communication approaches, and AWS network and data architecture to connect a desktop product with cloud services. Also developed and tested an image-processing AI prototype.

    C#WPFReactPythonFlaskAWSMySQL

Skills