Daigo is as savvy on navigating the data jungle as a compass is helpful in foggy weathers. It is rare to come across someone who can both look at the world from a 10k feet view as well as handle very low level detailed technical architecture decisions and discussion. As a data practitioner, and as a strategist, I have come to appreciate the perspectives Daigo has, with both precision and accuracy.

Daigo was my mentor for a year when we both worked at FiveStars. His advice, input and direction were invaluable in terms of both steering my career and personal development, as well as deciding on the future course of projects that I worked on. Daigo is incredibly patient and is a pleasure to work with. He always directed me towards coming up with solutions to any problems myself. Thanks to Daigo’s mentorship and challenges that he created for me, I was able to not only grow my technical skills such as Python but I also learnt a lot about delivering high-quality data science projects in the business world. His strong business acumen allowed him to make important product decisions keeping in mind the impact they had on the company. Daigo works really well cross-functionally and has a great understanding of the impact that data science has across all teams.

We have been extremely pleased with the work done by Daigo to set-up a platform to enable us to gain deeper levels of insight into many aspects of our business. Daigo has both the expertise, and just as importantly, the desire to help its clients get the most value they can out of their data.

Daigo is a professional of the highest calibre. He engaged with several key stakeholders at Car IQ, including the CTO, CPO, and other members of senior management, and everyone was very impressed with his attitude to work. In addition to engaging with senior members of the team, Daigo worked closely with a junior engineer in a mentoring role and helped them transition to become Car IQ's founding data engineer.

Anelen's team is absolutely outstanding. We closed our last round with a prominent VC in great part due to the data visibility we provided to investors through Anelen's work.