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Built a small rewrite system that converts Japanese numeral phrasing into correct numeric output and reports that it fixes recurring errors from machine translation, using examples from work on Japanese numbers; describes running that logic as part of quality checks analogous to unit tests. Works as a backend engineer on Scala backend microservices at ClearScore after a bootcamp career change three years ago, and compares Scala’s functional style to Kotlin Arrow.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:23Background
3. 0:42Difference between translator and software developer
4. 1:09How to change career
5. 1:55Company
6. 2:29Learning Scholar
7. 3:14Functional Programming

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