Tori Hara
Chief Technology Officer at Kaminashi
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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RockstarTori Hara is a Tokyo-based technology leader and CTO with 11 years of experience building cloud-native and container-focused systems, currently steering engineering and product direction at Kaminashi. Previously at AWS he helped shape container services and developer advocacy, and his hands-on contributions to high-profile open-source projects like eksctl show deep expertise in EKS regionalization, AMI configuration, and node-group monitoring. He combines product sensibility with infrastructure chops—improving ECS Exec pre-flight checks and addressing real-world operational edge cases like SSM VPC endpoints and shared VPCs. Comfortable moving between strategy and code, Tori brings a pragmatic, developer-first approach to scaling distributed systems and observability.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (16)
amazon-eks10
kubernetes10
bash10
go10
aws10
amazon-ecs10
aws-cli10
devops10
kubernetes-pods10
validators9
cloudwatch9
infrastructure-as-code9
aws-cloudformation8
kubernetes-cluster8
kubernetes-deployment7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
aws-containers/amazon-ecs-exec-checker
Mar 2021 - Aug 2021
🚀 Pre-flight checks for ECS Exec
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 releases, 14 reviews, 55 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Tori primarily focused on improving the pre-flight checks for ECS Exec functionality. They addressed critical issues, like version compatibility with the AWS CLI, and added features for more comprehensive validation by checking the task status and various configurations. The commits include region checks and improved error messages for more robust functionality. In addition, they addressed the SSM VPC endpoint and shared VPC subnets by implementing appropriate checks and error messages.
exececsflightamazonamazon-web-services
eksctl-io/eksctl
Dec 2018 - Jun 2019
The official CLI for Amazon EKS
Role in this project:Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 4 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Tori primarily focused on enhancing Amazon EKS functionality by adding support for new AWS regions. They modified AMI configuration files, test files, and API definitions to incorporate new regions like Frankfurt, Tokyo, Singapore, and Seoul. Furthermore, they added CloudWatch support for node groups by integrating relevant IAM policies and configurations. The user's contributions demonstrate expertise in managing and expanding EKS's regional deployment capabilities and enhancing monitoring features.
aws-cloudformationkubernetes-deploymentamazon-eksamazoneks
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