Summary
Hideto Saito is an infrastructure software engineer with over 20 years of systems and software experience and more than a decade in senior engineering roles, currently focused on platform and infrastructure at Apple. He combines deep UNIX and systems programming roots (C, Java, Objective-C, Python) with practical cloud-native expertise—helping teams move from monolithic, waterfall operations to microservices, CI/CD and Kubernetes-driven autoscaling. Author of three Kubernetes books, he translates hands-on tooling knowledge into organizational change: migrating on-prem datacenters to public cloud, introducing DevOps practices, and modernizing deployment pipelines. His background spans startups and large enterprises (Sun, IIJ, Lending Club, Apple), and he’s notable for pairing low-level systems insight with product-facing platform leadership.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at 東北学院大学 / Tohoku Gakuin University
Japanese, English