Summary
Kenji Naito is a seasoned web operations engineer and technology leader with 13 years of experience building and running cloud-native infrastructure across AWS, Linux, Chef, MySQL, Redis, Fluentd and monitoring stacks like Zabbix and Sensu. He has progressed from hands-on roles at Livedoor, KAYAC and Sumally to VP of Engineering and CEO positions, blending operational depth with product and company leadership. An experienced conference speaker on topics such as Fluentd, Sensu and Zabbix, he brings practical expertise in observability and automation to large-scale web systems. Based in Utrecht, he now combines tech entrepreneurship with hospitality as co-owner of a Japanese lunch concept, showing an appetite for translating cultural ideas into local businesses. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, infrastructure-first solutions that balance reliability with deployability. Hidden strength: he frequently moves between deep engineering work and public speaking, making complex ops topics accessible to practitioners.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
English, Japanese