Yoshi Yamaguchi

Yoshi Yamaguchi

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Summary

Staff Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs with expertise in Observability and SRE. Over 15 years of experience in developing backend software, practicing 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.

See About for biography, publications, talk history and more.

Professional Experience

Staff Developer Advocate

Grafana Labs – Tokyo, Japan April 2026 – Present

  1. Advocacy of Grafana OSS and Grafana Cloud product suite in Japan
  2. Focus areas: Observability, SRE and DevOps practices
  3. Supporting OpenTelemetry and observability related OSS communities

Senior Developer Advocate

Amazon Web Services – Tokyo, Japan November 2024 – March 2026

  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 July 2018 – October 2024

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

Senior Partner Developer Advocate

Google – Tokyo, Japan October 2013 – July 2018

  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 – October 2013

  1. Led large partner onboarding to YouTube partnership 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 scenario 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

Master of Mechano-Informatics in Engineering The University of Tokyo – Tokyo, Japan Graduated: March 2008

Bachelor of Mechano-Informatics in Engineering The University of Tokyo – Tokyo, Japan Graduated: March 2006

Publications

See the full list with cover images in About.

Open source activities

  • OpenTelemetry
    • Documentation SIG triager
    • Japanese document localization SIG maintainer/approver
    • End User SIG member
    • Semantic Convention: Service and Deployment SIG member
  • 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