February 6, 2013
Basho is excited to announce that Dr. Kenji Rikitake jj1bdx at Twitter) has joined the company and will be based in Basho’s Tokyo Office. As a widely regarded industry expert on information security and computer networks, Kenji will be designing and guiding the evolution of the security model for Riak, Basho’s distributed database.
Kenji’s credentials are stellar. He was previously Professor of Institute of Information Management and Communication (IIMC) and Academic Centre for Computing and Media Studies (ACCMS) at Kyoto University (KU). He worked on KU campus information and network security management.
Kenji has worked on Erlang/OTP since 2008, including implementations of pseudo random number generators based on an industry standard Mersenne Twister. He also served as the General Chair of the 2011 ACM SIGPLAN Erlang Workshop.
Kenji has a Master of Information Engineering from University of Tokyo, and a PhD of Information Science and Technology from Osaka University. He is a senior member of ACM and IEICE.
Kenji has contributed to significant academic research surrounding distributed systems, application security, and network security. His academic papers and technical publications can be found at: http://www.k2r.org/kenji/papers/.
Also, we encourage you to check out Kenji’s recent video on IPv6 programming for Erlang/OTP at http://www.erlang-factory.com/conference/SFBay2012/speakers/kenjirikitake.
We are excited to have Dr. Kenji Rikitake join the Basho team.
