Tomofumi Nakayama was appointed as CTO, Representative Director, and founding member of Karakuri Corporation in October 2016 to promote the social implementation of machine learning while conducting applied research on machine learning technology at the University of Tokyo Graduate School. Began undertaking big data analysis, web development, smartphone application development, etc. from undergraduate school. After graduating from undergraduate school, he spent a year studying in Silicon Valley while continuing to work as a freelancer.