Aaron Layfield
Senior Director, Internet Services Div, CPaaS (Infrastructure, DevOps, SRE) at Rakuten Symphony
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolAaron Layfield is a cloud-native infrastructure and DevOps leader based in Tokyo with nearly a decade of experience designing and operating large-scale CPaaS platforms and multi-cluster Kubernetes environments. As Senior Director at Rakuten Symphony he drives SRE, DevOps and infrastructure teams to deliver resilient, automated, and profitable platforms, having previously brought complex products to production maturity within months. He blends hands-on systems engineering—Go, Rust and Python projects, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Istio, Argo and Prometheus—with people leadership and mentorship to standardize tooling and simplify complex systems for broad organizational adoption. Aaron’s background spans building cloud data centers, HIPAA/ISO-compliant medical imaging services, and developer-facing microservices, and he’s known for prioritizing automation and clear, layman-friendly documentation. An active cloud architect and open source contributor, he uniquely pairs bare-metal and public-cloud expertise to solve cross-domain operational challenges.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
National First Award ICT, Information Technology, Distinction, National First Award ICT, Information Technology, Distinction at St. Peters Cambridge
English, Japanese
Github Skills (189)
fitness10
container-management10
fedora-coreos10
opensearch10
sentry10
python10
security10
google-cloud10
fluent-bit10
opentelemetry10
stream-processing10
fluentd10
cloud-native10
operator10
django10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
DandyDeveloper/helm-kube-charts
Jul 2019 - Jul 2020
Curated applications for Kubernetes
Contributions:66 commits, 69 pushes, 14 branches in 1 year
kubernetes
DandyDeveloper/charts
Mar 2020 - Dec 2022
Various helm charts migrated from [helm/stable] due to deprecation
Contributions:52 releases, 243 reviews, 181 commits in 2 years 9 months
helmchartskubernetes
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