Yasuharu Katsuno (勝野恭治)           

Dr. Yasuharu KATSUNO is a research staff member at IBM Research - Tokyo. He receives M.S. degree from Keio University (Supervisor: Professor Mario Tokoro) and Ph.D. degree from University of Tsukuba (Supervisor: Professor Eiji Okamoto). His research interests include distributed transaction processing, application modernization, microservices, and distributed systems.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Data-centric Application Modernization
• Legacy Workload Transformation to Cloud
• Cloud Infrastructure
• Hybrid Cloud

SKILLS

• Cloud Infrastructures: OpenShift, IBM Cloud, OpenStack.
• Programming Languages: Python, Java, Ruby, C.
• Natural Languages: English, Japanese.

EXPERIENCES

• (2019-present) Global Technical Leader, AI for Application Modernization
  • Transactional data modernization
  • Transaction performance improvement
• (2016-2019) Global Technical Leader, GTS SO Operation Automation
  • Transformation of server operations
• (2015-2016) Global Technical Leader, OpenShift Scaling
  • Scalable OpenShift Control Plane
• (2013-2015) Global Technical Leader, Automated Deployment API Service
  • Rapid and automated deployment of a set of enterprise solution servers on cloud
• (2010-2015) Global Technical Co-Leader, Hybrid Project
  • Cloud Broker for seamless integration across private and public clouds.
• (2012) Technical Leader, GTS/ITS-Japan Delivery Automation
  • Transformation of GTS/ITS-Japan delivery
• (2009-2010) Technical Leader, GTS - Research Joint Program ITS Cloud
  • Launch of cloud business in GTS/ITS-Japan
• (2006-2008) Technical Leader, Trusted Virtual Domain
  • Application-level distributed mandatory access control system.
• (2005) Strategy Staff, IBM Research – Tokyo
  •  Technical assistant of Director of IBM Research – Tokyo
• (2002-2004) Technical Leader, ThinkPad Autonomic Network Configuration
  • Automatic switch of network configurations for ThinkPad Access Connections
• (1999-2002) Technical Member, Bluetooth Personal Area Network Profile
  • Reference Implementation of Bluetooth Network Ethernet Protocol (BNEP)