Zenta Hori
Senior Security Specialist SA at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Chiyoda, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolZenta Hori is a senior security specialist and AWS veteran with over 18 years in IT infrastructure, software development, and product management, and more than a decade of hands-on AWS experience from both customer and AWS perspectives. She has led engineering teams as a startup CTO, overseen global service engineering for semiconductor equipment, and earned patents for embedded control innovations. At AWS she built and commercialized new application and generative AI security offerings, closed six-figure deals, and scaled security revenue through technical enablement and public speaking. Her background spans embedded controls for semiconductor inspection to cloud-native architectures for large-scale gaming and analytics platforms, giving her a rare cross-domain fluency. Fluent in English and experienced across the US, Europe, and Asia, she combines deep technical expertise with strong customer-facing and hiring experience. Collected insights from field deployments and product launches inform her pragmatic approach to secure, scalable system design.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Biotechnology, Master of Science (M.S.), Biotechnology at 東京大学 / The University of TokyoBachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics at Tokyo University of Science
Japanese, Chinese, Chinese, 韓国語
Github Skills (13)
perforce9
helix6
aws5
chef-solo2
pci-dss1
aws-lambda1
macos1
rails1
deploying1
pci1
ruby-on-rails1
ruby1
security1
Github contributions (5)
aws-samples/aws-perforce
Apr 2020 - Feb 2021
Building Perforce Helix Core on AWS
Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 1 branch in 9 months
helix-coreperforcehelixaws
aws-samples/amazon-sagemaker-unity-game-simulation
Sep 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:30 commits, 1 push, 2 branches in 8 months
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