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Takatsugu Ishikawa

DevOps Engineer / Full-Stack Developer

Kubernetes AWS Next.js FastAPI Laravel Terraform Java Spring Boot PHP

🏢  Main Career

DevOps / Platform Engineer / SRE

Telecom Industry — Cloud Platform Team

Building and operating Kubernetes infrastructure with deployment automation.
Microservice orchestration, Helm chart management, CI/CD pipeline design,
Secret management on K8s, large-scale DB migration, service mesh configuration.

Kubernetes OpenShift Docker Helm Istio Jenkins Java/Spring Boot Python PostgreSQL Vault GitHub Actions

💼  Side Projects

Account Management Platform

Enterprise / Telecom

Multi-stage approval workflow
Azure AD integration

FastAPI / Next.js / AWS

Certification Body Portal

Public Institution

Members-only web system
CMS migration to Laravel

Laravel / Filament / MySQL

Training EC Platform

Education / Training

Online course sales platform
Payment & membership system

WordPress / WooCommerce

Exam Prep App

Education / Certification

Mock exams & quiz challenges
3-mode study application

Next.js / Play Framework

Pet Food EC Site

Consumer / E-Commerce

EC site with custom features
Pet health profile system

WordPress / WooCommerce / Ansible

⚡  Tech Skills

Languages

Java Python PHP TypeScript JavaScript Scala Go (learning)

Infrastructure

Kubernetes Docker AWS Terraform Ansible Nginx Linux

Frameworks

Spring Boot FastAPI Next.js Laravel Play Framework React

DevOps

Jenkins GitHub Actions Helm Istio Vault CI/CD

📈  Career Timeline

2023

K8s + CI/CD Deep Dive

Ramped up on Kubernetes, Jenkins, and Java/Spring Boot — learning and shipping in parallel

2024

Expanding Tech Scope

Docker, Helm, DB operations, cloud security — tackling a wide range of infrastructure challenges

2025

Full-Stack Side Projects

Expanding into Python/FastAPI/Clean Architecture. Multiple freelance projects running in parallel

2026

Exploring Independence

Managing multiple concurrent projects while exploring the path to independent consulting

🎯  Personal

Sports

Futsal (tournament organizer)
Football fan & referee
Skiing (Hokkaido native)
Running

✈️

Travel

India, USA, New Zealand
Nara, Osaka, Kyoto
Hokkaido (hometown)

Travel Journal →
🎵

Music

J-Pop enthusiast
Yumi Matsutoya
Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi
Koji Tamaki, Ulfuls

🤖

AI & Learning

Heavy AI user
ChatGPT & Claude daily
Tech to life hacks
English (NZ study abroad)