Summary
Takaaki Kurihara is a seasoned infrastructure and systems leader with over 20 years of experience designing, building, and operating servers, storage, and networks for financial institutions and trading firms. He has led large teams and managed more than 3,000 devices while delivering low-latency HFT infrastructure in UK data centers and migrating core banking systems to AWS microservices using Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, and GitHub Actions. Comfortable across customer-facing and office environments, he has repeatedly launched mission-critical services for banks, securities firms, and crypto exchanges across Japan, Hong Kong, and the UK. Known for hands-on troubleshooting and a disciplined approach to requirements and cross-team coordination, he combines operational rigor with a continual appetite for new technologies. Despite senior roles, he remains technically involved—proposing and implementing improvements himself rather than only delegating.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer