Summary
Kaz Nakane is a senior solutions engineer with 10+ years designing and commercializing hybrid cloud, networking, and security solutions for global telco and enterprise customers across APAC. Currently at Nutanix after shaping compute and networking product strategy at AWS, he combines hands-on architecture for HCI, VDI, and DBaaS with GTM and revenue-driven product enablement. His background leading Sales Engineering teams at Lumen and NTT America reflects deep expertise in MPLS, WAN/LAN, CDN, DDoS mitigation, and cloud migration for large Japanese and multinational accounts. Comfortable as both a manager and individual contributor, he’s known for building SE training frameworks and reference architectures that scale regional teams. Based in Chiyoda, Tokyo, he uniquely blends operator-grade networking experience with modern serverless/container and edge computing approaches to accelerate digital transformation.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology, Computer Science, Bachelor of Information Technology, Computer Science at University of Missouri-Kansas City
English, Japanese