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Harald Kubota

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Datacenter Operations Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS)

  • Education

    • University of Regensburg

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      Diplom (Univ) Chemistry

      For a comparison between Diplom (Univ.) and Masters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplom#Comparison_between_Diplom_and_Bologna_Degrees_in_Germany

  • Experience

    • Gabacom GmbH

      Jun 1995 - Aug 2000
      Co-Owner

      IT support (including Internet, Voice, WLAN) for medium size companies in the Bavarian area (Regensburg/Munich)

    • Forefront Technologies

      Nov 2000 - Sept 2002
      IT Engineer

      Originally hired for taking care of Unix systems, I handled everything from network and Unix/Linux, to Windows: setting up, configuring, debugging and fixing customers (typical 10-50 users) systems.

    • Merrill Lynch

      Sept 2002 - Jan 2010

      Unix SA (Ops/Projects), later PacRim Unix Project Team Lead Unix SA, Operations and Projects

      • AVP IT Operations/Project Delivery

        Oct 2004 - Jan 2010

      • Contractor IT Unix Operations

        Sept 2002 - Oct 2004

    • Bank of America Merrill Lynch

      Jan 2010 - Aug 2021
      VP IT Engineering

      Automation via process engineering/optimization as well as actual implementationAdoption of Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban)Adoption of Kubernetes (OpenShift)Leading a distributed team of 8 engineers in 5 countries in AsiaAdvocate for automation and modernizing the processes we use (i.e.: less Excel sheets and emails, less waterfall planning, less reactive monitoring, more APIs and automation, more agile (where appropriate) and infrastructure-as-code, more pro-active monitoring). Show less

    • Amazon Web Services (AWS)

      Aug 2021 - now
      Datacenter Operations Manager

  • Licenses & Certifications