kazuki
Japan
Summary
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RockstarKazuki Higashiguchi is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 9+ years building and operating cloud-native infrastructure across e-commerce and fintech domains, now focused on resiliency and AI-driven improvements at Shopify. He combines deep SRE practice—chaos testing, database resiliency, Kubernetes, Go—and multi-cloud operations with hands-on incident response in globally distributed teams. Previously he led platform and payment engineering at BASE and Autify, owning large-scale Kubernetes fleets, GPU ML clusters, and secure network services handling thousands of nodes. As a former engineering manager and tech lead, he has shipped zero-downtime migrations, major PostgreSQL upgrades, and secure production access workflows while mentoring teams of ~10 engineers. An active speaker with 60+ conference talks and author of industry magazine chapters on Docker and testing best practices, he translates complex operational challenges into practical, observable systems. Outside work he’s an avid adult amateur basketball player and lifelong NBA fan, which he credits for his team-first, competitive approach to reliability.
9 years of coding experienceProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ykng/dotfiles
Jul 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 4 months
ykng/Servlet-and-JSP
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 28 days
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