Ken Tamagawa

CEO & Co-founder, SORACOM, INC.

Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

About

Experience

  • CEO & Co-founder at Soracom Inc.
    Mar 2015 - Present · 11 yrs 4 mos

    SORACOM is an IoT connectivity solutions provider (MVNO). We empowered already over 20,000 IoT projects globally. We offer a global connectivity for all types of IoT devices from various network technologies like cellular (2G/3G/LTE, LTE-M), Sigfox or LoRaWAN to any public or private cloud enabling bidirectional communication between devices and AWS/MS/Google cloud, by-passing public internet.

  • Amazon Web Services (4 yrs 7 mos)
    • Sr. Manager, Solution Architecture, Training and Professional Services
      Nov 2012 - Mar 2015 · 2 yrs 5 mos

      He is leading the country team of Solutions Architects, Trainers, and Professional Services Consultants within the wider sales and business development organization of Amazon Web Services (AWS). His broad responsibilities will include: growing and developing an elite technical team; aligning to business priorities of the larger customer facing team; working closely with sales and business development roles; owning the technical engagement and ultimate success around specific implementation projects; providing technical thought leadership, and developing a deep expertise in the AWS technologies as well as broad know-how around how applications and services are constructed using the AWS platform.

    • Manager, Solution Architecture
      Feb 2012 - Oct 2012 · 9 mos

    • Technology Evangelist
      Sep 2010 - Jan 2012 · 1 yr 5 mos

      I am serving as Technical Evangelist in Amazon Data Services Japan KK and responsible for the evangelism work of Amazon Web Services for Japanese market.

  • IBM (1 yr 7 mos)
    • Manager of Rational Technical Sales
      Jul 2009 - Jul 2010 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Technical sales manager in IBM Rational

    • IBM Software Evangelist
      Jan 2009 - Jul 2010 · 1 yr 7 mos

      Software Evangelist focused on Aglie Development, Scrum, Lead development, and software engineering

    • Group Leader (new product launch)
      Jan 2009 - Jun 2009 · 6 mos

      Project management, launching and promoting a new product line (jazz) in IBM Rational

  • Carnegie Mellon University (2 yrs 5 mos)
    • Project Manager in Architecture Evolution Project
      Sep 2007 - Dec 2008 · 1 yr 4 mos

      Project management, including agile planning & tracking, risk management, people management by using Scrum and AUP Software Architecture Design, including choosing architecture selection, organizing quality attributes workshop, architecture documentation (Jan 2008 - May 2008) Software requirement management, including requirement process definition, requirement elicitation, use case documentation, paper prototyping (Aug 2007 - Dec 2007)

    • MBA/MSE(Soft Eng) dual degree
      Aug 2006 - Dec 2008 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Summer Associate at IBM Venture Capital Group
    May 2007 - Jul 2007 · 3 mos