Kenta Goto
Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Chiyoda, Japan
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Top SchoolKenta Goto is a Solutions Architect with nine years of experience pairing hands-on cloud engineering with strategic technical sales at AWS, where he advises ISV/SaaS customers and presents in both English and Japanese. He specializes in platform and container engineering—driving early Amazon EKS adoption in Japan—and has led CI/CD and cloud migration initiatives at scale. An active open-source maintainer and recognized AWS community contributor, Kenta is a top contributor and reviewer for the widely used AWS CDK, with commits that improved backup and maintenance capabilities. He combines technical depth in Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS with experience crafting CxO-facing proposals and workshops, and he mentors colleagues while fostering partner collaborations that won industry recognition. An unexpected angle: his academic background in political science underpins his strength in stakeholder analysis and persuasive, data-driven technical proposals.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Political Science, Bachelor of Political Science at Keio University
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Github contributions (5)
aws/aws-cdk
Oct 2022 - Apr 2025
The AWS Cloud Development Kit is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Cloud Engineer
Back-end Developer & Cloud EngineerContributions:649 reviews, 143 PRs, 900 comments in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Kenta's commits focus on enhancing the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) for the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK). They added features to the `aws-cdk-lib/aws-backup` module, including support for recovery point tags and integrating instance maintenance policies. Their contributions involved modifying existing code, adding tests, and updating documentation.
development-kitaws-cloudcloud-infrastructureinfrastructurecloud-development
open-constructs/aws-cdk-library
Feb 2024 - Feb 2025
Community-Driven CDK Construct Library
Contributions:211 reviews, 22 PRs, 248 comments in 1 year
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