Summary
Masahiko Kitamura is a manager and seasoned solutions architect with 12+ years building high-performance networking, web delivery, and data engineering solutions across Akamai, NTT, and Databricks. He blends deep protocol- and systems-level expertise (L2/3/7 networking, SDN, C++/Python) with large-scale data engineering and ML practice (Spark, DWH, CNNs and LLMs), enabling reliable, secure web services and CI/CD for content delivery. At Databricks he progressed from Solutions Architect to Manager, applying cloud-native data platforms to operational and security use cases. He also brings research experience from UC San Diego and a solid academic foundation from The University of Tokyo and Sophia University, which informs his work on LLM management, agent guardrails, and evaluation. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who pairs low-level performance tuning with production-ready ML and data architectures.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
University of Tokyo
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Sophia University
English, Japanese