Summary
Akira Yokokawa is an Engineering Lead based in Chiyoda, Japan with 13 years building distributed systems, virtual networking and IaaS platforms. He has led engineering at SpeakBUDDY since 2017 after developing core virtual datacenter and OpenFlow-based network projects (Wakame-vdc, OpenVNet) and CI tooling at axsh, where he engineered ZeroMQ-based event frameworks and large-scale Jenkins-driven test matrices. Akira blends hands-on systems design with customer-focused cloud integrations, having built multi-cloud deployment toolkits that automatically wire VPNs across AWS, SoftLayer and on-prem environments. Comfortable moving between architecture and implementation, he’s known for turning complex inter-cloud and networking requirements into reliable, automated operations.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Lugano
University of Tsukuba
Japanese, English, Italian, French