Summary
Kazuki Ohta is a founder-engineer and CEO with over 15 years building large-scale data platforms and cloud services, best known for co-founding Treasure Data (acquired by Arm) which now powers enterprise customer data for 400+ global clients and processes over a trillion records monthly. Combining deep academic training from the University of Tokyo with hands-on systems work—from peta-scale I/O research to leading Arm’s Data Services—he blends research-grade technical rigor with product-minded leadership. He now runs Treasure AI, focusing on agentic customer experiences across marketing, sales, and service, while serving on the Forbes Technology Council and advising startups as an active angel and board participant. A longtime community builder, he founded Hadoop User Group Japan and routinely shares candid lessons from his entrepreneurial failures to help other founders. Known for spanning front-end to data science, he often crafts cross-domain solutions that other teams miss, pairing full-stack fluency with a relentless customer-centric focus. Based in Palo Alto, he brings rare experience scaling both engineering organizations and data infrastructures to commercial impact.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of Tokyo
English, Japanese