Summary
Toru Makabe is a Senior Cloud Solution Architect with over 11 years of hands-on experience designing and delivering cloud platforms and applications, currently shaping enterprise Azure adoption at Microsoft from Kawasaki, Japan. He combines deep technical expertise in open-source tooling, containers and serverless compute with a strong background in customer-facing presales, executive advisory, and public technical evangelism. Prior roles at Hewlett-Packard/HP honed his ability to translate complex business requirements into pragmatic cloud reference architectures and multi-year migration journeys. Toru also creates practical developer guidance—presentations, docs, samples, and books—that help teams deploy, manage and scale cloud-native systems. Unusually for an architect at this level, he recently completed a master’s in information science, signaling ongoing commitment to technical depth alongside commercial impact.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Information Science, Master's degree, Information Science at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
bachelor, Business Administration, bachelor, Business Administration at Aoyama Gakuin University
English, Japanese