Summary
Akihiro Kitada is a Tanzu Technical Account Manager with two decades of Java engineering roots and a decade of focused experience in cloud, virtualization, and data-grid technologies. He has deep hands-on expertise supporting and modernizing mission-critical systems for financial and enterprise customers, including Pivotal GemFire/Apache Geode, Spring Data GemFire, Cloud Foundry, and Kubernetes. His background spans HPC and grid computing, virtualization stacks (vSphere, Xen, KVM), and fast-data platforms—skills he applies to bridge engineering teams and platform operators. Known for shifting from low-level client work (C++/C# native clients) to platform-level technical account management, he blends troubleshooting rigor with roadmap-driven modernization guidance. Based in Chiyoda, Japan, he is actively expanding into reactive streams (Project Reactor) and .NET cloud frameworks like Steeltoe, reflecting a pragmatic curiosity about polyglot cloud-native architectures.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
master, information technologies, master, information technologies at Hokkaido University
English, Japanese