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 (17)
code-analyzer9
linter9
ruby8
static-code-analysis8
rubocop8
ruby-style-guide7
aws7
aws-cloudformation5
sbt5
rails4
coding-conventions4
saas4
aws-sdk4
aws-cloud3
security1
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Blue-Pix/describe-cfn-change-set
Apr 2020 - May 2020
Github Action to describe AWS CloudFormation stack change set diff
Contributions:3 releases, 16 commits, 4 PRs in 6 days
aws-cloudformation
Blue-Pix/eclair
Mar 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:26 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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