I joined NetApp

• Disclaimer: Opinions are my own.
• Japanese Version of this blog is here.

Yesterday, I joined NetApp G.K. Japan (NetApp Japan) as a Cloud Solutions Architect-AWS.

Nowadays, I worked as an Infra Engineer of belonged System Integrator’s project at the client site platform team(SRE) using AWS heavily and got following certifications and so on to get concrete knowledge and common protocol to talk in this industry.

• AWS：Certified Solution Architect&DevOps Engineer — Professional
• Kubernetes：CKA/CKAD
• Azure： Certified DevOps Engineer Expert/Azure Administrator Associate

Yoshiki Fujiwara - Cloud Solutions Architect - AWS - NetApp | LinkedIn

I decided to join this company because I wanted to play a role in supporting the adoption of cloud technologies by being a bridge.

I heard that this position is the first person in Japan. I would like to bridge the knowledge and ideas of each country / team, including Japan, other APC countries, the United States and all over the world!!

In addition, I hope that it will get more affinity with my tech community activities, utilize resources as a vendor, provide information, and send opinions and questions to developers. Especially in Japan, I believe that NetApp has a lot of things to be desired in the approach to contribute in tech communities and developers to clients.

• I am a staff member of CloudNative Days Tokyo 2021 which will be held in November 4th to 5th(JST) and other tech conferences held in Japan. And also I love to participate this kind of events.

CloudNative Days Tokyo 2021

• If you are interested in my motivation to be a staff member of tech conferences, you can check the following my previous post to talk about it.

Tech Conference, do you see it from the outside? Or do you see it from the inside?

There are a lot of things to catch up with, such as NetApp products, AWS products, pre-sales role and many domains.

Step by step, I would like to get my hands dirty more than ever, provide useful information, and get feedback from the relevant parties(and you).

Finally, let me introduce you our event you do not want to miss it.
The following global event will be held this month, so register first and join us if you like.

INSIGHT 2021 Digital: Meet the Specialists 2

• Americas: Wednesday, October 20–8 a.m. PDT
• EMEA: Thursday, October 21–10 a.m. CET
• APAC: Friday, October 22–11 a.m. SGT

NetApp INSIGHT 2021 Digital is coming, October 20-22 | NetApp INSIGHT 2021 - Meet the Specialists 2

I will keep writing my weekly blog series of SRE/DevOps/Kubernetes here, in Medium. If you have any question or comment, please do not hesitate to contact me as usual.

Bye now!!

Yoshiki Fujiwara