Yuta Yamate is a cybersecurity manager with 11 years of experience, currently leading Rakuten’s CloudSecOps Group to harden large-scale private cloud environments through automation and developer-friendly security practices. He previously built and managed multiple product and platform security teams at Rakuten, advancing DevSecOps and web application security from hands-on penetration testing to strategic operations. Balancing industry and academia, he serves as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Institute of Science Tokyo, teaching attack-and-defense strategies and mentoring emerging security talent. An OSCP-certified practitioner recognized with Rakuten Award Grand Prize, he focuses on scalable, sustainable security engineering and fostering a culture where security enables rapid delivery rather than impedes it.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering, Master of Engineering at Tokyo Institute of Technology
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