Summary
Satoru Funai is a founder and CEO with over a decade of experience specializing in open source software, ICT infrastructure, and cloud systems integration. He has led OSS Laboratories since 2009, advising on and implementing cloud platforms (AWS, CloudStack, CloudFoundry) and big data stacks (Hadoop, Asakusa Framework) alongside a broad set of open source applications such as Talend, Pentaho, Zabbix, JBoss and SugarCRM. His background spans sales, product marketing and business development, giving him a rare combination of technical depth and commercial acumen from hands-on system consulting to go-to-market strategy. Earlier roles at IBM, Sequent and Netmarks grounded him in high-end UNIX, SMP/cc-NUMA architectures and enterprise managed services. Based in Japan, he is known for turning complex infrastructure needs into pragmatic, open-source-first solutions that scale for enterprise customers. An operator-entrepreneur by trade, he often bridges legacy enterprise systems and modern cloud-native approaches.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Kwansei Gakuin University