Kazuki Uchima is an Application Modernization Specialist at Google Cloud specialized in Kubernetes, Service Mesh and Serverless platform.

Senior Specialist Customer Engineer for Kubernetes, Service Mesh, and Serverless technologies.

• Provided technical support, including architecture design and troubleshooting, to a wide range of customers from digital natives to enterprises. Also provided technical onboarding and technical consulting to engineers in Google Cloud Japan.
• Led the development and execution of Go-To-Market strategies for products such as Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Anthos Service Mesh (ASM), and Cloud Run in the Japan market. Delivered over 20 presentations at public events and published 15 articles. Launched and provided a prototyping program (Platform Engineering Jumpstart) to accelerate customer onboarding.
• Created and delivered demos to hundreds of customers to educate them on Kubernetes multi-cluster architecture, security, and service mesh.
• Collaborated closely with the product team to improve product quality and enhance official documentation.

Technical Consultant specializing in SDDC (Software-Defined Data Center), Hybrid Cloud, and Cloud Native Technologies (Kubernetes, Container).

• Led design support services for vSphere-based private cloud infrastructures, incorporating Pivotal Container Service (now VMware Tanzu Platform). Designed system architectures and provided technical guidance to customers.
• Led performance and capacity management accelerator services for vSphere-based private cloud infrastructures. Optimized customer's system operations using VMware Operations products, resulting in reduced operating costs.
• Delivered emerging technology solutions design and PoC (Proof of Concept) support services, often as the first deployment in Japan or globally. Collaborated closely with the product team, to resolve critical issues.
• Developed tools in Bash and Python to provide customers with additional functionality not natively supported by the product.

Systems Engineer / Project Manager

• Designed and built the infrastructure for a Windows-based mobile messaging service. Built operational jobs and data replication mechanism for disaster recovery using Powershell. Introduced operational automation to reduce operational load and improve availability.
• Led the APAC region integration project for a messaging system as Project Manager. Consolidated fragmented messaging services within the region, optimized traffic routing across APAC, Japan, US and EMEA. Successfully completed system migration through close communication with each region.
• Led the migration of a large-scale messaging system, comprising hundreds of servers, from an on-premises vSphere environment to SaaS as Project Manager. Designed the overall architecture, including a hybrid cloud configuration during the migration period.

• 進化するコンテナ環境: Google Kubernetes Engine と Cloud Run の最新アップデートと使い所を徹底解説 - Google Cloud Next Tokyo ‘24 (August 2024)
• GKE を使い倒して機械学習 / HPC に最適化された Kuberenetes 基盤を作る方法 - Google Cloud Next Tokyo ‘23 (November 2023)
• Getting Started with Anthos - Google Cloud Next On Air (August 2020)

• 生成 AI 時代に Google Kubernetes Engine は何を解決してくれるのか - Generative AI Summit Tokyo '24 (March 2024)

• GKE ユーザー必見！進化の軌跡と最新情報をお届け - Google Cloud Day ‘23 (May 2023)
• Anthos on-premises 〜 Anthos でオンプレミス環境のモダナイゼーションを実現 〜 - Google Cloud Day Digital (May 2021)

• 忙しい人のための Google Cloud Next ‘22 Recap (Application Modernization 編) - App Modernization OnAir (November 2022)
• 実践！Cloud Run セキュリティ - Cloud on Air (内製化 Day) (July 2022)
• Kubernetes でクラウドを管理！Config Controller でガードレールを構築する - App Modernization OnAir (March 2022)
• HPE のプロフェッショナルが語る Anthos バックアップ設計の勘所 - App Modernization OnAir (December 2021)
• 忙しい人のための Google Cloud Next ‘21 速報 (Infrastructure / Application Modernization 編) - App Modernization OnAir (October 2021)
• GKE ネットワーキング 最新機能 Deep-dive - App Modernization OnAir (July 2021)
• 詳解 Anthos on Bare Metal 〜 ベアメタルでアプリのモダナイゼーションを実現 〜 - App Modernization OnAir (March 2021)
• Anthos で実現するオンプレミス環境のモダナイゼーション - App Modernization OnAir (July 2020)
• Google が提供するフルマネージドのサービスメッシュ「Anthos Service Mesh (ASM)」とは - App Modernization OnAir (June 2020)

• マイクロサービスの信頼性を支えるオブザーバビリティとサービスメッシュ - CloudNative Days Tokyo 2023 (December 2023)
• Gateway API と eBPF で進化する GKE Networking - CloudNative Days Fukuoka 2023 (August 2023)
• GKE で実現する運用レスな世界 - CloudNative Days Tokyo 2022 (November 2022)
• GKE Security Overview - GKE のセキュリティ関連機能を一挙紹介 - Cloud Native Security Conference 2022 (August 2022)

• Platform Engineering - 開発生産性を高めるためのプラットフォーム作りとは - 開発生産性 Conference (November 2023)

• コンテナオーケストレーションとGoogle Kubernetes Engine（GKE）の特徴とその活用 (September 2023)

• GKE をこれから学びたい・詳しくなりたい人向け！おすすめ学習リソース集 (December 2023)
• GKE で GPU 使うのめっちゃ簡単 (December 2023)
• これから始める GKE (基本編) (December 2022)
• カスタム組織ポリシーで GKE クラスタの安全な設定を強制する (December 2022)
• Backup for GKE でクラスタ移行を試してみる (September 2022)
• Google Cloud とオンプレミス環境間でマルチクラスタ サービスメッシュ (ハイブリッドメッシュ) を構成する (May 2022)
• オンプレから Cloud Run にプライベートな経路でアクセスする (February 2022)

• セキュアな GKE クラスタを構築するために知っておきたいポイント 2022 年夏（前編） (August 2022)
• セキュアな GKE クラスタを構築するために知っておきたいポイント 2022 年夏（後編） (August 2022)
• Config Controller で Google Cloud のガードレールを構築する (December 2021)
• Hybrid connectivity NEG を使ってハイブリッドクラウド環境間の負荷分散を試してみる (October 2021)
• フルマネージドに進化した「Anthos Service Mesh」で運用を楽に！ (Septhember 2021)
• 簡単構築！NUC でおうち Anthos を動かしてみよう (May 2021)
• Traffic Director でプロキシレス サービスメッシュを試してみる (December 2020)

Bachelor's Degree, Department of Bioscience and Bioinformatics

Associate Degree, Department of Media Information Engineering