Summary
Mitz Amano is a Systems Reliability Engineer based in Austin with 11 years of engineering experience and 3+ years focused on Kubernetes and the cloud-native ecosystem. He brings deep expertise in Linux distributions, kernel tuning, packaging (rpm, deb), and platform utilities, backed by a long history of open source engagement and technical writing. At Cloudflare he serves as an SRE and Vault SME, contributing Vault plugin development and Kubernetes/Vault integrations, and previously helped build Kubernetes, etcd, and container tooling at Cybozu. His background includes leading Linux distribution development and CI efforts across APAC, plus hands-on SRE work with CoreOS, Ansible, and bare-metal Kubernetes. Beyond operational excellence, he combines product-focused leadership from director roles with low-level engineering chops—an unusual mix that helps him both design resilient systems and implement the kernel- and packaging-level fixes that keep them running.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of the People
Information Technology, Information Technology at Tokyo Metropolitan Institute Fuchu Technical High School
Advanced Collage, Advanced Collage at Linux Academy
English, Chinese, Japanese