Hiroyuki Ito
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About
Hiroyuki "The HIRO" Ito is the agile coach, DevOps advocate, test automation coach, and mechanism inventor. He has been devoted to agile since 2012 and coached 10+ organizations, 30+ teams, and 500+ persons agile, DevOps, technical practices, effective communications, and organizational agile adoption mainly in Japan. Additionally, he supported 30+ persons to obtain CSP in Japan.
The HIRO has been working with software development since 2000. He started his career as a programmer and changed gradually as a software architect. He has experienced Scrum and XP intermittently since 2003. He has been studying technical excellence like DevOps and trying to combine it with agile practices, mindsets, and culture for radical industrial improvements and customer business outcomes since 2012.
The HIRO is now working as an application development consultant at Amazon Web Services Japan G.K. His experience ranges from team coaching to organizational agile adoption. He always combines agile frameworks, technical excellence, and coaching to improve skills, culture, and business outcomes of clients.
Professional skills
- Agile
- Scrum
- XP
- Kanban/Lean Software Development
- Product Management
- Software Teaming (Mob Programming)
- Technical skills
- DevOps (CI/CD, Process improvement with Four Key Metrics)
- Test automation (TDD, BDD)
- Cloud computing (with AWS)
- Others
- Coaching (based on Co-Active Coaching)
- Effective communications based on coaching and NVC (Nonviolent Communication)
- Agile metrics
- Inventing mechanisms (Process improvements, new ways of working process, and so on)
Global speeches
- Regional Scrum Gathering Tokyo 2023 (Japan)
- DevOpsDays Kraków 2022 (Poland)
- Regional Scrum Gathering Tokyo 2022 (Japan)
- Regional Scrum Gathering Tokyo 2021 (Japan)
- Agile2020 (USA)
- Regional Scrum Gathering Tokyo 2020 (Japan)
- DevOpsDays Tokyo 2018 (Japan)
- Regional Scrum Gathering Tokyo 2017 (Japan)
- DevOps Summit 2016 (Taiwan, Keynote speaker)
- Agile2014 (USA)
Experience and services
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Career history
- 2021-10-01 - present - Amazon Web Services Japan G.K. (Application Development Consultant)
- 2006-09-01 - 2012-11-30 - OGIS-RI Co.,Ltd. (System Architect)
- 2012-12-01 - 2015-10-15 - Rakuten, Inc. (Agile Coach)
- 2015-11-01 - 2017-08-31 - Yahoo Japan Corporation (Agile Coach & Automation Coach)
- 2017-09-01 - 2021-08-31 - LINE Corporation (SET : Software Engineer in Test)