Noritaka Sekiyama
Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineering at Databricks
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolNoritaka Sekiyama is a senior big data architect with 13 years of experience specializing in data lakes, distributed systems, and cloud-native analytics on AWS. Currently a Senior Resident Solutions Architect at Databricks after leading features and developer-facing artifacts for AWS Glue and Lake Formation, he blends product engineering with hands-on platform delivery. He has authored dozens of high-impact open-source tools and samples—including the widely used dbt-glue project with 700K+ downloads—and published 80+ AWS blog posts reaching over half a million page views. Known for solving architectural bottlenecks at enterprise scale, he’s delivered talks at re:Invent and major Summits on topics like Iceberg, streaming ingestion, and cost optimization. Working remotely from Tokyo as the lone Japan-based member on global teams, he pairs deep Spark/Hadoop expertise (EMR, Glue, Hudi, Iceberg, Delta) with a focus on automation and observability. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic designs that turn complex data engineering challenges into reproducible, maintainable platform artifacts.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Information Science, Master, Information Science at Nagoya University
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Github Skills (28)
data-pipelines10
aws-cdk10
python10
data-engineering10
typescript10
load-balancing10
cloud-infrastructure10
java10
javas10
aws10
typescript-types10
openflow10
infrastructure-as-code10
aws-glue10
typescripts10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
aws-samples/aws-glue-samples
Sep 2019 - Jan 2023
AWS Glue code samples
Role in this project:
Data Engineer
Data EngineerContributions:17 reviews, 77 commits, 45 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Noritaka primarily contributes to the development of AWS Glue jobs and related utilities for data processing within the AWS ecosystem. Their work focuses on implementing tools for managing access controls, synchronizing resources, and creating a version checker for Glue jobs. The contributions demonstrate a strong understanding of AWS Glue, Lake Formation, and data catalog management. The user's focus is centered around automating data pipeline operations.
aws-glue
aws/aws-cdk
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
The AWS Cloud Development Kit is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code
Role in this project:Back-end & Cloud Engineer
Back-end & Cloud EngineerContributions:9 reviews, 1 commit, 7 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Noritaka contributed to the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) by implementing features and fixing bugs related to the AWS Glue service. They addressed issues with reserved parameters and updated support for the Ray job type, including the required `Runtime` parameter. Furthermore, they added support for data quality rulesets. The user's contributions involved code modifications across multiple files and involved interactions with AWS Glue's API and configurations.
awscloud-development-kitcloud-infrastructureinfrastructure-as-codetypescript
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