Summary
Kozo Hirata is an IT and security leader with over 20 years of experience who currently serves as IT & Security Manager and Senior Tech Lead in Tokyo, bridging business strategy and hands-on technical execution. He has led large-scale initiatives including a ¥400M public-sector ticketing platform recovery, multi-vendor programs managing 20 engineers, and an enterprise IT budget redesign at ~¥100M scale. Kozo designs cloud-native, serverless multi-region architectures on AWS and re-architected IT infrastructure during a corporate carve-out while driving non-functional requirements for availability, performance, and security. As ISMS Chair he led ISO27001 audits and centralized governance across 50+ SaaS contracts, implementing organization-wide MFA and Google Workspace multi-domain designs. Known for combining strategic vision with delivery discipline, he is particularly effective translating executive priorities into secure, operable platforms and enjoys roles at the intersection of IT strategy, enterprise architecture, and technical program leadership.
13 years of coding experience