Naoko Sakurai
Senior Specialist, Innovation Programs
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolNaoko Sakurai is a seasoned program leader with 8+ years at Amazon and AWS, specializing in launching large-scale enablement and innovation programs for Japanese enterprise customers. She combines hands-on program delivery—building onboarding curricula, internal knowledge platforms, and leadership development—with cross-cultural stakeholder management across Japan and APAC. At AWS she translates Amazon’s customer-centric innovation methods into tangible outcomes, driving adoption, change management, and measurable engagement gains. Her background at Apple and Amazon Retail gives her a rare blend of field sales training experience and systems-oriented program design. Known as a pragmatic solutions architect on GitHub, she pairs strategic vision with the tactical rigor to operationalize complex initiatives. Based in Tokyo, she thrives in roles that require aligning global standards to local market needs while accelerating team ramp and productivity.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BA, Education, Sociology, BA, Education, Sociology at Waseda University
Github Skills (33)
analyzer10
rubocop9
static-code-analysis9
ruby9
formatter9
code-analyzer9
linter9
describe8
static-analysis8
saas7
aws7
complexity7
boost6
sdk6
aws-sdk6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Blue-Pix/eclair
Mar 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:26 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
Blue-Pix/saas-identity-cognito
Oct 2020 - Mar 2025
AWS Quick Start Team
Contributions:177 PRs, 220 pushes, 200 branches in 4 years 5 months
aws-lambdasaasiamtflintaws
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