Kazuki Suda
Engineering Manager at Preferred Networks, Inc.
Kyoto, Japan
Summary
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RockstarKazuki Suda is an engineering manager at Preferred Networks with 13 years of experience building and operating Kubernetes-based infrastructure for large-scale ML/DL workloads. He combines hands-on backend and DevOps expertise—contributing to prominent OSS projects like Cluster API, krew, minikube and stern—with leadership responsibilities guiding platform reliability and developer experience. Based in Kyoto, he co-organizes Kubernetes Meetup Tokyo and actively shapes kubectl tooling, improving CLI completion, plugin UX, and release pipelines. His background spans a long tenure at Yahoo! JAPAN and ongoing advisory roles at Datachain and Scalar, showing a blend of product-scale engineering and strategic guidance. Known for practical bug fixes that improve stability and UX, he also publishes technical writing and talks that surface operational lessons from running ML clusters.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (29)
kubernetes10
debug10
command-line-interface10
kubectl10
cicd10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
command-line10
cluster-api10
devops10
cli10
golangci-lint9
dockers9
cluster-computing9
bash9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
stern/stern
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
⎈ Multi pod and container log tailing for Kubernetes -- Friendly fork of https://github.com/wercker/stern
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:105 reviews, 83 commits, 191 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Kazuki primarily contributed to the project by modifying build and release processes, and upgrading dependencies. Their work included updating Cobra, fatih/color, and other package dependencies. They also integrated golangci-lint for code quality checks, refactored code to pass the linter, and set up version information using ldflags. These changes streamline the development workflow and improve code maintainability.
werckerdevopstailkubectllogging
kubernetes-sigs/krew
Jul 2018 - Dec 2021
📦 Find and install kubectl plugins
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 12 PRs, 13 comments in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Kazuki primarily contributed to the `krew` plugin manager for Kubernetes. Their work focused on improving the user experience through bug fixes related to the `search` and `info` commands, specifically addressing error messages and output formatting. The user also added a `homepage` field to the plugin manifest, expanding the plugin information available to users. Furthermore, the user renamed the `remove` command to `uninstall` and updated the supported platforms.
kubectlkubectl-pluginskubernetesk8s-sig-cli
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