Berthold Alheit
Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Yokohama, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolBerthold Alheit is a Senior Solutions Architect and strategic engineering leader with 17 years of experience building and transforming remote-first technology organizations across Japan. He has a strong track record modernizing engineering stacks and processes—driving migration from outsourced teams to in-house, multinational remote teams, addressing critical architectural debt, and introducing big-data observability for KPI-driven decision making. At companies from startups to AWS and Mercari he has led cross-functional responses to compliance and security incidents, implemented data lineage and PII controls, and overseen IT governance for IPO readiness. Comfortable in objective-driven environments, he blends hands-on DevOps and platform engineering with empathetic leadership and stakeholder negotiation to align technical roadmaps with business outcomes. An unusual strength is his experience navigating both startup scrappiness and enterprise audit requirements, enabling pragmatic choices such as retiring risky legacy systems in favor of enterprise-grade vendors. Based in Yokohama, he excels at bootstrapping distributed teams and turning complex technical debt into measurable long-term value.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
University of Pretoria
Afrikaans, Japanese, English, Russian, German
Github Skills (73)
multithreading10
sodium10
api10
libsodium10
elm9
screwdriver9
continuous-delivery9
emscripten9
testing9
asmjs9
linter9
concurrency9
x255199
deprecated9
analyzer9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
elyzion/cellgraph
Mar 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:29 commits, 3 PRs, 24 pushes in 3 months
event-basedrailsdistributed-systemwipruby
elyzion/elyzion
Apr 2021 - Nov 2023
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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