Naoto Kobayashi
Senior Sales Account Executive at Adobe
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolNaoto Kobayashi is a senior sales account executive with eight years of experience helping enterprises and SMBs adopt digital experience, CDP, and fraud prevention solutions across finance and e-commerce. He began his career selling mainframes at IBM for major financial institutions, moved into fintech investment and Salesforce, and later drove strong quota overperformance at Acquia (FY21 193%, President's Club). Comfortable selling complex SaaS stacks, he has recent experience in AI/ML-based fraud prevention and payment risk at Riskified and now brings that expertise to Adobe. Naoto also contributes technical fixes to open-source projects like Nextcloud, demonstrating hands-on backend familiarity that helps him bridge engineering and commercial conversations. Fluent in the Japan market and a frequent speaker at industry forums, he combines deep sector knowledge with a track record of turning technical products into measurable business outcomes.
7 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Laws - LLB, Anglo-American law, Bachelor of Laws - LLB, Anglo-American law at 日本大学 - Nihon UniversityExchange Student, Arts and Science, Exchange Student, Arts and Science at University of TorontoMaster of Intellectual property(MIP), Intellctual Property, Master of Intellectual property(MIP), Intellctual Property at Tokyo University of Science
Github Skills (7)
debug10
php10
nextcloud10
open-source9
testing9
file-sharing8
self-hosting7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nextcloud/server
Nov 2021 - Nov 2021
☁️ Nextcloud server, a safe home for all your data
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 24 commits, 3 PRs in 2 days
Contributions summary:Naoto primarily focused on addressing issues related to PHP locale handling within the Nextcloud server codebase. They fixed bugs related to the `setlocale` function, especially concerning PHP 8 and UTF-8 encoding. Their contributions also involved improving the resilience of the code by adding fallbacks and checks to ensure correct locale configurations, enhancing the overall stability of the server's locale handling mechanisms. They modified the `OC_Util` class and relevant test files.
owncloudfile-sharingcollaborationsharingdecentralized
YoitoFes/dokuwiki-plugin-oauth
Jun 2020 - Nov 2024
Generic oAuth1 and oAuth2 plugin for DokuWiki
Contributions:8 pushes, 8 branches in 4 years 5 months
phpoauth1genericdokuwikioauth2
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