Summary
Hirotaka Nakajima is an infrastructure and security engineering leader with 15 years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems across data centers and cloud environments. As Vice President in Technology at Goldman Sachs, he leads configuration management and security infrastructure for 200,000+ servers, focusing on automation, platform reliability, and regulated system isolation. Previously at Mercari he combined security research—authoring IETF Internet-Drafts on crypto asset standards—with hands-on SRE work spanning on-prem BGP/AS operations to GCP VPC design and scalable remote access solutions. He founded and operates an independent ISP end-to-end, single-handedly implementing member management, billing, authentication, RADIUS, and CI/CD-driven infrastructure with Terraform, Ansible, Docker, and Stripe. A contributor to Internet standards and governance (ISO TC68, IETF, JCIX, former ISOC Japan board), he also leverages LLMs as a force multiplier across architecture, code generation, and documentation.
15 years of coding experience
Computer Science, Visiting Graduate School Student, Computer Science, Visiting Graduate School Student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Master of Media and Governance, Computer Science, Master of Media and Governance, Computer Science at Keio University
Japanese, English