Keiichi Kobayashi
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarKeiichi Kobayashi is a cloud and distributed systems engineer with 11 years of experience designing and operating public, private, and hybrid cloud platforms. He builds IaaS/PaaS/SaaS backend services in Python and Go, manages production Kubernetes/OpenStack environments, and has deep hands-on expertise across networking (BGP, MPLS, VxLAN), NFV/SDN, and system integration on Linux and AIX. As a Senior Cloud Engineer at IIJ America and an active back-end contributor to the widely used NetBox project, he focuses on reliable APIs, testing, and network automation toolchains. Certified Kubernetes Administrator and experienced in Terraform, Ansible, and observability stacks, he blends operational discipline with software development across the full stack. Based in Los Angeles, he also brings practical telecom-grade knowledge from IBM-era roles, making him comfortable solving complex networked-system problems that cross infrastructure and application boundaries.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
English, Japanese
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Github Skills (16)
api10
python10
apidoc10
django10
infrastructure-management9
ip9
network-automation9
dc8
network8
git6
heroku6
django-models6
configurations6
anaconda6
sqlalchemy6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
netbox-community/netbox
Sep 2019 - Sep 2020
The premier source of truth powering network automation. Open source under Apache 2. Try NetBox Cloud free: https://netboxlabs.com/free-netbox-cloud/
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:37 commits, 37 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Keiichi primarily contributes to the back-end development of the NetBox project, focusing on enhancements to the Django-based infrastructure. Their work includes modifying and refining existing features, such as port connection types, and implementing new functionalities, like allowing null region filtering. They also contribute to testing and API improvements, with commits that include test cases to validate the functionality, and modify the API responses. Furthermore, the user is also involved in applying bug fixes and improvements across various modules of the project, like adding a new parameter.
netmikopythontruthsotinfrastructure-management
kobayashi/netbox
Sep 2019 - Oct 2020
IP address management (IPAM) and data center infrastructure management (DCIM) tool.
Contributions:109 pushes, 38 branches in 1 year
netmikocenterdata-centeraddressinfrastructure
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