Aaron Kagawa
Director, Platform Engineering
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
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Top SchoolAaron Kagawa is a seasoned platform engineering leader with over a decade of experience building high-scale observability and data platforms, currently directing Platform Engineering at Kentik from Honolulu. He combines hands-on technical depth in distributed data ingestion, time-series processing, and cloud infrastructure with product-minded leadership, having driven Kentik’s Universal Data Records and AI-driven insights. A proven manager and mentor, he’s built and led multi-team engineering organizations, formalized processes, and scaled systems that handle hundreds of thousands of records per second. Aaron is also an entrepreneur and co-founder of a software consultancy, and volunteers as the technical lead for Native Stories, applying AWS, Go, and React Native to preserve Hawaiian culture. His background includes driving mission-critical analytics at LiveAction and early-stage productization from research at Referentia and university labs, reflecting a rare blend of research, product, and operational expertise. Based in Hawaii, he’s comfortable bridging distributed teams, complex algorithmic problems, and community-focused technical initiatives.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Information and Computer Sciences, Masters Information and Computer Sciences at University of Hawaii at ManoaProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
akkagawa/HITempMap
Feb 2016 - Feb 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 4 PRs, 52 pushes in 5 years 1 month
akkagawa/DrylandAg
Jun 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:87 commits, 79 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
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