Kay Sawada
Senior Serverless Strategist - APAC
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolKay Sawada is a Senior Serverless Strategist based in Tokyo with 14 years of experience architecting cloud-native and developer-focused solutions across Fastly, Google, Red Hat and multiple startups. He blends hands-on engineering (notably in Ruby and systems work) with customer-facing roles—spanning technical account management, DevOps leadership and engineering management—to help APAC teams adopt serverless and edge architectures. A seasoned public speaker, he has given technical talks on topics from Kubernetes CRI prototypes to LLVM IR and high-performance Ruby, reflecting a rare mix of low-level systems curiosity and product-minded delivery. Colleagues know him for pairing technical depth with empathy for teams and partners, and for turning researchy proofs-of-concept into practical production systems.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Information and communication Engineering, BS, Information and communication Engineering at The University of Electro-Communications
English, Japanese
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Github Skills (79)
openwhisk10
sketchup10
8-bit10
bit10
serverless-functions10
mruby10
faas9
lambda9
functions-as-a-service9
julia9
science9
serverless9
plugin9
fastly9
docker9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
remore/julializer
Aug 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 3 months
compilertranspilerruby
remore/redhat-tech-night-2018
Oct 2018 - Nov 2018
A Landing Page For Red Hat Tech Night Happening at Tokyo in 2018
Contributions:50 commits, 14 PRs, 42 pushes in 16 days
nightcssjavascriptred-hathat
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