Akihiko Horiuchi
Engineering Manager, Platform Services
Greater Tokyo Area Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolAkihiko Horiuchi is an Engineering Manager with 13 years of hands-on experience building backend systems for public cloud services, now leading Platform Services at NTT DOCOMO BUSINESS. He specializes in designing REST APIs, workflow-based provisioning, monitoring systems, and CI/CD pipelines, and has successfully migrated production backends from on-prem virtual servers to Kubernetes. As a former Tech Lead and Scrum Master he blends technical decision-making with cross-team coordination—aligning product, operations, microservices, and SRE for sustainable, extensible architectures. He’s proficient in Ruby and Python, has implemented Terraform providers and Ansible automation, and contributed to the popular itamae project by improving its http_request resource. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he reduces operational risk through automation and careful rollout strategies such as blue/green deployments.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering, Reliability-based Information Systems Engineering, Master of Engineering, Reliability-based Information Systems Engineering at Kagawa University
Japanese, English
Github Skills (8)
configuration-management10
chef-client10
infrastructure-as-code10
chef-solo10
chef-infra10
chef-dk10
ruby10
git4
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
itamae-kitchen/itamae
Dec 2015 - Jan 2016
Configuration management tool inspired by Chef, but simpler and lightweight. Formerly known as Lightchef.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 6 PRs, 27 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Akihiko significantly contributed to the `itamae` project by implementing and improving the `http_request` resource. This included creating the resource, adding features such as specifying headers, action types (GET, POST, DELETE, PUT), and redirect handling. The user also refactored the resource to utilize `net/http`, improving its functionality and maintainability. They also contributed to improvements on existing resources such as `gem_package`, and fixed a bug in the backend shell method.
configuration-managementansibleinfrastructurerubyinfrastructure-as-code
hico-horiuchi/chikurin
May 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:5 releases, 33 commits, 1 PR in 3 months
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