Summary
Kazuhiro Takagi is an experienced IT engineer with over 20 years in programming, consulting, and technical support, specializing in platform technologies, storage (SAN/NAS/virtualization), and UNIX/Linux/Windows server environments. He has held engineering and support roles at NetApp, EMC, Microsoft, Novell and as a consultant for large financial institutions, bringing deep expertise in filesystem internals (WAFL), performance analysis, and large-scale backup and disaster recovery. Equally comfortable in development and customer-facing roles, he has 15 years of C experience, has taught C and Linux, and led validation and QA for multi-vendor storage projects up to hundreds of terabytes. Since 2013 he has been operating as a freelance engineer managing server and storage infrastructure, blending hands-on operations with design and troubleshooting. Based in Yokohama, he combines low-level technical depth with practical deployment experience, making him a strong bridge between product engineering and mission-critical production environments. An often-overlooked strength is his long history of translating complex vendor technologies into localized, production-ready solutions for Japanese enterprise customers.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Japanese, Chinese