Taka Hatakeyama
Verified Expert in Engineering
Infrastructure Engineer and Developer
Meguro City, Tokyo, Japan
Toptal member since February 2, 2024
Taka is a cloud engineer with over 20 years of experience in the IT industry and over 10 years of experience with AWS and other public cloud platforms. He is passionate about automation, DevOps, and leveraging cloud technologies to improve the agility and efficiency of businesses. Taka has worked for clients including Sony, Sony Interactive Entertainment, NTT R&D, NTT Docomo, Fujitsu, 3Com, and Morgan Stanley.
Portfolio
Experience
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 10 years
- Amazon EC2 - 10 years
- Docker - 7 years
- GitHub - 6 years
- AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) - 4 years
- Terraform - 3 years
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk - 3 years
- AWS App Runner - 2 years
Preferred Environment
Amazon EC2, Cloud9, Terraform, AWS App Runner, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), Amazon EKS, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), GitHub, Cloud Infrastructure, AWS DevOps, DevOps, JavaScript, Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Integration (CI), Confluence, Jira, Microservices, Kubernetes, Bash, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Linux, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon RDS, AWS IAM, Implementation, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Containerization, Cloud, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), AWS Fargate, Amazon Aurora, Microservices Architecture, Helm, Infrastructure
The most amazing...
...work I've led is a VoIP project that was a success and drove me to a Cisco Switches project within my next position.
Work Experience
Infrastructure Engineer
NTTData
- Spearheaded the development of an AWS back-end system while upskilling a team with minimal AWS experience, delivering the project successfully through hands-on mentoring and technical leadership.
- Successfully built a comprehensive AWS infrastructure utilizing EC2, Lambda, and RDS to create a robust, scalable back-end solution.
- Delivered a robust back-end infrastructure capable of serving over 1,000 concurrent users, ensuring reliable system performance under high load.
Infrastructure Engineer
Fujitsu
- Designed, built, and deployed an enterprise-grade private cloud system using Red Hat OpenShift, providing containerized infrastructure for application development and deployment.
- Performed comprehensive debugging of Kubernetes YAML manifests, identifying and resolving configuration errors that were preventing successful pod deployments.
- Delivered as part of a Japan Ministry of Defense initiative, with private cloud deployment required to meet government security and data sovereignty standards.
Engineering Manager
G.Plan Inc. (KDDI Group Company)
- Designed and implemented a back-end infrastructure using AWS App Runner, enabling automated deployment and management of containerized applications with built-in load balancing and scaling.
- Successfully built and configured a complete infrastructure environment optimized for containerized application deployment and management.
- Managed a four-person engineering team, mentoring members with limited AWS experience to successfully deliver cloud solutions.
Infrastructure Engineer
S.RIDE
- Increased the number of iPhone and Android users for this taxi-service app developed by one of Sony's group companies in Japan.
- Implemented and tested APIs in development and production environments using GitHub Actions for CI/CD.
- Deployed and maintained infrastructure with AWS components.
- Tested new infrastructure environments with Amazon EKS and AWS App Runner with Docker containers.
Infrastructure Engineer
Sony
- Handled Sony's eCommerce website back end and an on-premises to AWS cloud migration project.
- Leveraged Terraform, Amazon EC2, AWS ALB, autoscaling, and document creation.
- Migrated over 50 on-premises servers to AWS cloud successfully.
Site Reliability Engineer
Sony Interactive Entertainment
- Configured and maintained over 200 Amazon EC2 Linux servers using Chef servers and Chef clients.
- Updated Linux servers in several regions in the United States.
- Ensured over a million PlayStation users could keep playing games without any downtime.
Pre-sales and Support Engineer
NTT Docomo
- Worked as a pre-sales engineer with BlackBerry's enterprise server for corporate customers.
- Built BlackBerry's enterprise server for customers and directly supported the system for over four years.
- Increased BlackBerry's enterprise solution users in Japan.
Project Leader
NTT R&D
- Garnered project leader experience working for NTT R&D's center in Tokyo.
- Led infrastructure deployments and troubleshooting projects successfully.
- Managed a VoIP project covering four regions: Japan, Korea, the UK, and the US.
Experience
Infrastructure Engineering for S.RIDE
https://www.sride.jp/enVMware Virtual Environment for NTT Docomo
VoIP Project at NTT R&D
Certifications
Cisco Certified Network Associate
Cisco Systems
Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC)
Institute for International Business Communication
Skills
Tools
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Terraform, AWS IAM, GitHub, Jira, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Fargate, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), Amazon EKS, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), AWS Batch, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS CodeCommit, Docker Hub, Chef, VMware, Lotus Domino, Confluence, Postman, Helm
Platforms
Amazon EC2, BlackBerry, Windows Server, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows, MacOS, AWS ALB, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Red Hat OpenShift, AWS Lambda
Paradigms
DevOps, Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Integration (CI), Microservices Architecture, Microservices
Storage
Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Data Pipelines, Microsoft Exchange Server, Amazon Aurora
Languages
Python 3, Ruby, JavaScript, PHP, Python, SQL, Bash
Other
Cloud9, AWS App Runner, CI/CD Pipelines, Cloud Infrastructure, AWS DevOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Amazon RDS, Implementation, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Containerization, Cloud, Infrastructure, Cisco Switches, Juniper, Cisco, AWS CodePipeline, Cisco Routers, English, VMware ESXi, Dell PowerEdge Servers, Virtualization Technology, WiFi, Entrepreneurship, Windows NT, Compaq, Internetworking, Windows 95, VoIP, SIP
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