Summary
Ryota Kadowaki is a freelance DevOps and cloud engineer based in Japan with 12 years of experience building and operating scalable infrastructure. He holds a broad set of AWS and GCP certifications up to professional and specialty levels, and pairs that cloud expertise with hands-on skills in Terraform, Docker, Ansible, and provisioning tools like Rain and Ecspresso. Comfortable across backend languages (Go, Rust, Python, Ruby, Elixir, Java) and frontend stacks (Vue, React, TypeScript), he bridges infrastructure and application development to deliver reliable, automated systems. His toolkit spans middleware and observability (Nginx, Tomcat, Elasticsearch, Datadog, Mackerel) and includes strong networking credentials (LPIC-2, CCNP). As a long-term freelancer since 2020, he focuses on production-grade automation and cost-efficient cloud architectures, often translating complex operational needs into maintainable code. He’s equally at home scripting infrastructure as writing services, bringing a pragmatic full-stack mindset to DevOps challenges.
11 years of coding experience