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This month's MVP is Yosuke Ito, the cornerstone of Coding Factory and commando leader.

Hello, I'm Kojima, also known as "Tokumitsu from the Coding Factory Club."

This month's MVP is Yosuke Ito, the former head of the Coding Factory Department.
Some of you may be wondering, "Wait, my predecessor? What is he doing now?" I'll let you know, but I've graduated from the Coding Factory Department and am currently working hard every day to launch a new business.

The reason why I recommended him as MVP this time is,
I wanted to say "thank you" out loud so everyone could hear.
That's the reason.
What did I want to express my gratitude for? There are so many things, but broadly speaking,

  1. Building the foundation for the Coding Factory Division (hereafter referred to as CF)
  2. The fact that they were really supporting me behind the scenes
  3. For always paving the way, one step ahead of me

I wanted more people to know about this contribution, and I want to express my deepest gratitude.


The award winner, Ito (middle), and myself, Kojima (right), burst into tears as soon as we explained the reasons for our award.

The foundation of CF

It's a bit vague and it's more of an atmosphere or unconscious level, so it's hard to explain, but I'll try to explain it (yelling it out loud, of course) with some anecdotes.
Going back 4 years, I had been self-employed for about 10 years, but then I happened to start working at CF as a coding director.
As soon as I started working there, I was put in charge of two large-scale projects back to back. I worked hard every day and was close to delivering both projects safely, but...an additional task arose in the evening the day before the second project was due to be delivered. After all, it was the day before the deadline! A large-scale project means the scope of the work is several hundred pages! And it happened to be during the busy season! ...Peeeeeep!!!
I immediately reported this to Mr. Ito (the coding team leader at the time) and asked for his advice...
I was asked about the specific details of the work, and when I answered, the next moment,

  1. Ask your team for help

  2. Identifying the number of members available for help and the hours each can work

  3. Work details & data sharing

  4. Deciding on allocation

  5. Each person was instructed to send the completed data directly to Kojima.


  6. Get started

With just 15 minutes of calm direction, and the members who came to help out, they worked calmly and diligently on the pages they were responsible for within the time they self-reported, and we were able to complete everything that day.
It may seem like a simple, casual exchange, but it was a shock to me as a former self-employed person.
Wow! What kind of direction and organizational skills is this?!
The word "moving" doesn't even begin to describe it. It was electrifying. Even now, just thinking about it brings tears to my eyes.
It may be hard to understand, but these 15 minutes are packed with CF know-how. And the current senior coders are the ones who are immersed in this Ito-style CF mindset.
I'm very grateful for their work ethic and production structure, as well as for nurturing reliable personnel who are able to do so.

Eat in silence

The following year, Mr. Ito became the head of the Cloud CF department and I became the leader of the coding team.
Just when I was thinking that it was now my turn to develop the team (on-site), a huge project came in and I was assigned to it.
When we were working on a super-large-scale project, Ito-san took over some of the leadership duties that I should have been doing. Or so I thought, but I later realized that he had actually taken on many more responsibilities without my knowledge.
Mr. Ito is very strict about unprofessional behavior, so I thought that if he didn't give me any guidance, it meant that I was doing things properly...but in fact, there were many times when he would quietly eat (Note: in CF, "eating" means "taking up" = "digesting") and help make it easier for the other members to do their jobs.
Unfortunately, due to various circumstances I cannot reveal any specific episodes, but despite being very thin, she was a CF-type competitive eater.


CF-type food fighters usually drink Glico cafe au lait every day. In the sense that they drink it every day, they might be called CF's Ichiro/athlete.

From CF Special Forces Commander to Company-wide Pioneer

After that, Mr. Ito was always assigned to new ventures, startups, and important projects. In a sense, he was a special attack team leader... no, a pioneer.
Large-scale CMS design, creating a system and training to improve the technical skills of Monosas Thailand staff, Monosas School in Kamiyama, various seminar lecturers, etc. Especially in this difficult time of recruitment, by serving as a Monosas School lecturer, five coders were born in CF. I am truly grateful for that.

In addition, I feel that often times, whenever I think that something like this is necessary, Mr. Ito has already been one step ahead, and the path has already been paved, measures have been put into place, and preparations have been completed.

Their pioneering efforts started with a coder team, then grew into the Cloud CF department, then the coding factory service, and have now spread to the entire company.
It's amazing to see how they continue to break new ground. It's like they just don't know where to stop. I hope they continue to break new ground, surpassing the pioneers in the industry and the world to become the king of infrastructure.

To be honest, I wanted to do more with you at CF and I'm really sad to see you go, but I've come to realise that there are other ways we can work together. I'll be hanging around with you in various ways from now on, so please continue to support me!


The pioneer of the post-world seems to be a direction-o-chi. The future infrastructure king is a legendary rain man, and has many episodes of being caught in heavy rain as soon as he goes outside.

Comments on receiving MVP award

Thank you so much for the MVP recommendation and award.
I feel very happy for some reason.

At Monosus, I am in the older category.
I think that as we get older, we tend to give more praise and receive less praise.

I was honored to receive the MVP award this time.
I no longer know how to express the joy of being praised.
She ended up being scolded by her junior for the smile she tried so hard to put on during the photo shoot, saying it was "too extreme."

In this way, it is because of my juniors that I was able to avoid creating a strange wall between superiors and subordinates.
I am once again grateful that I was able to enjoy my job as a manager.

And to all the executives who have given me advice and consultation on various matters,
I would like to express my sincere gratitude to all the managers and leaders who worked with me in running the CF.
From now on, we will continue to work even harder.

Thanks for the recommendation, Kojima-san.

Yosuke Ito

KOJIMA Izumi