Yoshi Yamaguchi

Yoshi Yamaguchi #

Summary #

Senior Developer Advocate at Amazon Web Service with expertise in Observability and SRE. Over 15 years of experiences in developing backend software, practitioning SRE in action, leading and supporting developer communities in Japan. Proficient in technical book translations with a handful of publications of Go, observability and SRE related books.

Skills #

  • Programming Languages: Python, Java, Go, Ruby
  • Frameworks: Django, Spring Boot, Flask, Ruby on Rails
  • Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis
  • DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, AWS, GCP
  • Tools: Git, Terraform, Ansible, Prometheus, Grafana
  • Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, TDD, CI/CD

Professional Experience #

Senior Developer Advocate #

Amazon Web Service – Tokyo, Japan November 2024 – Present

  1. Led advocacy in Japan of open source technologies and AWS products
  2. Championed AWS community support (JAWS-UG)
  3. Led an internal technical community in Japan on observability

Senior Developer Relations Engineer #

Google Cloud – Tokyo, Japan October 2024 – July 2018

  1. Led the advocacy of Observability and SRE from Google Cloud and playing the role of specialist of Google Cloud Operations suite (formerly Stackdriver). Leading the community work in Go Conference (since 2012), OpenCensus and OpenTelemetry (since 2018) in Japan.

Senior Partner Developer Advocate #

Google – Tokyo, Japan July 2018 – Oct 2013

  1. Led the integrations of Google’s latest products and features in Japan; Android’s new features in the major applications, Accelerated Mobile Pages, Progressive Web Apps, Chromecast, Google Photos, Android Wear, Google Assistant and YouTube.
  2. Drove customer feedback programs and provided significant impacts to the improvement of newly launched features with product teams.

Technical Account Manager #

Google - Tokyo, Japan April 2011 - Oct 2013

  1. Led large partner onboardig to YouTube partnershi program and built reference file ingestion pipeline system to increase the ingestion of reference files.
  2. Built data analytics dashboard for business development team and led monthly reporting system for greenfield opportunities.

Staff Consultant #

Oracle - Tokyo, Japan April 2008 - April 2011

  1. In charge of testing infrastructure for 10+ package integration scinario developments and developed automation system for environment setup.
  2. Contributed to 3 customer system integration projects as Oracle SOA suite expert and enabled engineers at partner companies representing the organization.

Education #

Bachelor of Mechanoinfomatics in Engineering The University of Tokyo – Tokyo, Japan Graduated: March 2008

Bachelor of Mechanoinfomatics in Engineering The University of Tokyo – Tokyo, Japan Graduated: March 2006

Publications #

Open Source #

  • OpenTelemetry (Japanese document approver)
  • OpenCensus
  • Go

Certifications #

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (2025)
  • 2nd grade Certified Skilled Professional of Financial Planning (2018)

Languages #

  1. Japanese Native
  2. English: Bilingual proficiency
  3. Spanish: Intermediate proficiency
  4. Chinese Elementary proficiency