Diego Akechi
VP & General Manager, SAP Business Unit at SUSE
Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolDiego Akechi is a technology executive with nearly two decades of global experience leading product, engineering, and go-to-market teams to modernize cloud-native, open-source platforms for SAP workloads. As VP & General Manager of SUSE’s SAP Business Unit he scaled a nine-figure subscription business, forged deep partnerships with SAP, Microsoft and hyperscalers, and drove platform differentiation for Kubernetes- and hybrid-cloud deployments. He combines hands-on technical fluency (Linux, Golang, Kubernetes, Terraform, HANA) with a track record of boosting team engagement and productivity through remote-first models and architecture modernization. Diego’s background spans B2B SaaS at scale—launching a pension ERP that integrated 400+ systems—and a steady rise through engineering and product leadership, underscored by executive education in AI and an MBA. Notably, he embeds customer voice into product lifecycles to maintain >95% satisfaction while accelerating SaaS innovations like SAP RISE and SAP BTP.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA) Business Administration and Management General, Master of Business Administration (MBA) Business Administration and Management General at FGV - Fundação Getulio VargasAssociate’s degree Project Management (Project Management Executive Education Program), Associate’s degree Project Management (Project Management Executive Education Program) at The George Washington UniversityArtificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence at MIT Sloan School of ManagementInstituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de São Paulo
Portuguese, English, Spanish, German
Github Skills (97)
command-line-interface10
exporter10
semantic-search10
prometheus-exporter10
prompt-engineering10
chatgpt10
ai10
generative-ai10
azure10
hana10
gpt10
libvirt10
gpc10
prepare10
distributions10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
diegoakechi/ha-sap-terraform-deployments
Mar 2019 - Sep 2021
Automated SAP/HA Deployments in Public/Private Clouds
Contributions:49 pushes, 15 branches in 2 years 6 months
cloud-foundryinfrastructure-managementsapkubernetesdeployments
diegoakechi/saphanabootstrap-formula
Feb 2019 - Apr 2021
SAP HANA platform bootstrap salt formula
Contributions:23 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 2 months
saltsalt-formulasap-hanasaphana
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