Summary
Makoto Shimura is a Senior Manager in Solutions Architecture with over a decade of experience building data and AI capabilities, currently leading Data, Analytics, Database and GenAI efforts at AWS in Tokyo. He brings a rare combination of hands-on data engineering, solutions architecture, and seven years of people management, having driven data platform strategy, governance, and innovation both in-house and from the vendor side. Makoto authored a practical AWS-focused Data Lake book and has shared perspectives on data-driven business and end-to-end data infrastructure, signaling strong practitioner-to-strategist credibility. Comfortable moving between pre-sales, technical leadership, and engineering execution, he excels at turning governance and strategy into scalable platform designs that enable innovation.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of Tokyo