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Hiroki Akamatsu - hi120ki
Platform & AI Security Engineer

About Me

I am a Platform Security Engineer specializing in enforcing secure-by-default cloud infrastructure, implementing security controls across development environments including GitHub and the software supply chain, and hardening Kubernetes security - all while minimizing friction for developers.

Professional Experience

2024 - Present

Mercari, Inc. — Security Engineer (Full-time)

  • Designed and implemented platform-wide security controls for the operational use of AI tools such as Coding Agents.
  • Developed tools to reduce the need for long-lived credentials on GitHub, reducing the risk of credential leakage and simplifying credential management. [Removing GitHub PATs and Private Keys From Google Cloud: Extending Token Server to Google Cloud]
  • Applied organization-wide security controls on Google Cloud Platform and AWS.
  • Authored Kubernetes hardening guidelines and reduced critical findings.
2022 - 2022

Mercari, Inc. — Security Engineer (Intern)

2021 - 2021

Recruit Co., Ltd. — Security Engineer (Part-time)

  • Performed application vulnerability assessments and built static-analysis parsers for proprietary codebases.