Kentaro Sasaki
Team Leader at 早稲田大学 WASEDA University
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolKentaro Sasaki is an experienced infrastructure and cloud engineering leader with over 11 years building and operating large-scale systems across AWS, OpenStack, and private clouds. As a team leader at Toyota and former platform lead at Rakuten, he blends hands-on expertise in distributed storage (Ceph, NetApp, LeoFS) and SRE practices with product and project ownership across multi-site teams. He has led migrations from servers to containers, designed BCP architectures now patented in process, and managed 24x365 payment platform operations. A part-time lecturer at Waseda and NII, he translates deep technical knowledge into curriculum-level teaching on cloud computing. Comfortable coding in Python, Go, and shell while automating CI/CD with Jenkins, Ansible and GitLab, he pairs pragmatic execution with a strong reliability-first mindset. Trained as an engineer (MEng) in physical chemistry, he brings analytical rigor and cross-disciplinary curiosity to infrastructure challenges.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Physical Chemistry, Master of Engineering - MEng, Physical Chemistry at University of Fukui
Japanese, English
Github Skills (37)
kapacitor9
fluentd8
bootstrapping8
monitoring7
time-series7
ftp-server6
azure-blob-storage6
blob-storage6
kafka6
azure-storage6
cloud-storage5
ansible5
ftps5
storage5
gridfs5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
infra-ci-book/bootstrap-host
Dec 2017 - Oct 2019
Ansible Playbook for bootstrapping host
Contributions:55 commits, 41 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 10 months
bootstrappinghostansibleansible-playbookplaybook
infra-ci-book/gitlab-vagrant-ansible
Jan 2018 - Oct 2019
Contributions:19 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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