Hirofumi Ichihara
Principal Architect at LINEヤフー株式会社
Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolHirofumi Ichihara is a Principal Architect and seasoned cloud/SDN engineer with 11+ years designing datacenter control-plane and container networking solutions. Since 2012 he has contributed to OpenStack (DevStack, Nova, Neutron) and served as a Neutron core reviewer, bringing deep systems-level expertise across L2/L3, BGP, SRv6, CLOS networks and traffic engineering. He has led infrastructure projects with strict compliance needs in fintech and healthcare, translating regulatory constraints into robust, auditable architectures. Hirofumi combines hands-on protocol and kernel-level networking experience with orchestration know-how in Docker, Kubernetes, CNI and CNM, enabling production-grade cloud-native deployments. Based in Japan, he now shapes platform strategy and architecture at LINEヤフー while continuing to advance SDN/NFV and datacenter networking C‑plane technology.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Osaka University
Japanese, English
Github Skills (27)
kernel8
security8
networking8
monitoring7
cni7
openstack-neutron7
k8s7
kubernetes-networking6
bpf6
kubernetes6
observability6
ebpf6
laravel2
lte2
docker2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hichihara/cnisample
Jul 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:7 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
hichihara/neutron
Aug 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:11 commits in 3 days
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