Shin Hashitani
Senior Staff Solutions Engineer at Kong Japan
Chiyoda, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolShin Hashitani is a Senior Staff Solutions Engineer with 20+ years of experience shepherding cloud-native and real-time data architectures across Japan and APAC, currently leading growth and local operational practices at Kong Japan. He blends hands-on architecture and pre-sales engineering—helping payments, digital-native, and enterprise customers adopt Kafka-based streaming, API platforms, and AI-enabled capabilities—while translating global playbooks into Japan-tailored operations. A pragmatic "Do What Works" practitioner, Shin is equally comfortable coding proofs-of-concept and coaching teams, having moved from platform architect roles at Pivotal/VMware Tanzu to solution leadership at Confluent. He repeatedly acts as the bridge between regional tech leadership and local markets, driving adoption through speaking, demos, and customer-facing technical guidance. An unusual strength is his combination of deep systems engineering roots (JavaEE and platform architecture) with product-level governance experience from regional roles at Manulife, giving him both technical credibility and strategic oversight.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Business, BS, Business at Bellevue UniversityAAS, Information Technology / Applied Software Application Development, AAS, Information Technology / Applied Software Application Development at ITT Technical Institute
English, Japanese
Github Skills (18)
installer10
edges9
confluent-cloud8
ksqldb8
sink8
kafka-streams8
kafka-connect8
syslog8
aggregator8
connect7
debezium7
kafka7
elasticsearch6
kubeadm6
java6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
shinichi-hashitani/splunk-confluent-sandbox
Feb 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:18 commits, 17 pushes in 8 months
shinichi-hashitani/cdc-jdbc-prometheus
Feb 2022 - May 2024
Contributions:1 push, 5 branches in 2 years 3 months
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