Kosho Owa
Production Chief at Yotei Brewing
Niseko, Japan
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Top SchoolKosho Owa is a seasoned technology leader and Production Chief with over a decade of experience driving software development, technical sales, and field marketing across Japan and APAC. As a former Principal Solution Architect at Elastic, he helped grow SaaS and subscription business by architecting search and analytics solutions for cybersecurity, IT operations, and business intelligence at large enterprises and telecom carriers. His background spans hands-on engineering (Java development for public-sector systems) to leading cross-national R&D and support teams at Trend Micro, blending product delivery with customer-focused operations. Based in Niseko, he pairs technical depth with public speaking and thought leadership—authoring multiple Elastic blog posts and presenting at major regional conferences. An unexpected thread through his career is his pivot into production and brewing with Yotei Brewing, demonstrating an appetite for operational leadership beyond traditional software roles.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Information Science, Information Science at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and TechnologyBachelor of Science in Engineering, Digital Image Processing, Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Digital Image Processing at Kanagawa University
Japanese, English
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Github Skills (21)
search-engine10
observability10
kibana10
java10
elasticsearch10
elastic10
visualizations10
get-started9
opensearch9
restful9
earthquake8
microsoft-translator6
performance-testing6
testing6
pipeline3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kosho/elasticsearch-api-usage-examples
Aug 2016 - Oct 2020
Contributions:11 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
kosho/ncedc-earthquakes
Jun 2016 - Nov 2018
Contributions:18 commits, 2 PRs, 14 pushes in 2 years 5 months
earthquake-dataelasticearthquakeelasticsearchelastic-stack
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