Summary
Kazunori Otani is a Senior Solutions Architect based in Tokyo with 13 years of experience designing and operationalizing observability and ad-tech systems. He has progressed from systems engineering to lead software engineering and CTO roles at VOYAGE GROUP and Zucks, then moved into customer-facing technical leadership at New Relic before joining Splunk. Proficient in Scala, Go and Make, he focuses on instrumentation and telemetry (OpenTelemetry) to help teams turn high-cardinality data into actionable insights. His background spans building SSPs and ad networks as well as enabling customers to scale monitoring and incident response. Equally comfortable in code and customer engagements, he blends hands-on engineering with solution architecture to drive measurable operational improvements. A pragmatic engineer who has moved between product engineering, technical leadership and customer success, he brings a rare combination of build-versus-buy judgment and observability expertise.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer