Summary
Shinpei Ohtani is a seasoned technology executive and CTO with 20 years’ experience designing and scaling cloud-native architectures across retail, media & entertainment, gaming, and enterprise. He has led and grown architecture teams of 6–30 engineers, blending hands-on system design with executive engagement to drive major cloud adoption and revenue outcomes. Formerly a Solutions Architecture lead at AWS Japan, he is adept at translating deep technical tradeoffs into CxO-level strategy and influencing product roadmaps. His engineering roots span distributed systems, big data platforms (Hadoop/Cassandra), and languages including Java, Scala, Go, C#, and Python, enabling practical end-to-end delivery from platform to application. Known for building reusable frameworks and guiding DevOps/SRE and global platform teams, he combines a pragmatic builder mindset with formal design review governance. Based in Chiyoda, Japan, he brings a rare mix of startup agility and enterprise rigor, often surfacing technical gaps between vendor offerings and real customer needs.
20 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science at Tokyo Denki University