Kenji Rikitake has been solving the security, management, and operational issues of computer networks as a professional engineer of Internet since 1990. His background has gone from operating system internals and Internet foundation protocols to distributed system security and Erlang/OTP concurrent programming system.

Kenji was born in Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan on 1965. Since July 1992, he and his spouse Kyoko Rikitake have been living in Toyonaka City, Osaka, Japan.

His current research topics on computer technologies are:

• Erlang/OTP
• Elixir
• FreeBSD
• Fundamental principles of distributed systems
• Distributed database
• Internet foundation protocols (TCP, UDP, IPv6)
• Internet foundation applications (DNS, HTTP, Email, etc.)
• Infrastructure operating system internals and management
• Infrastructure programming languages (C, awk, Perl, Python, etc.)
• Internet systems operation and management
• Internet security management

Click here for the list of Kenji's research papers.

Work Experience

April 21, 2014 - (current position):

• Founder, Kenji Rikitake Professional Engineer's Office

February 2013 - September 2013:

• Senior Software Engineer, Basho Japan KK / Basho Technologies, Inc.
• Development of distributed database software Riak, Riak CS, and the related products

April 2011 - January 2013:

• Professor, IT Planning Office, IIMC, Kyoto University
• Strategic planning and consulting of engineering for Internet, information, and computer security of the information infrastructure of Kyoto University, including that of the campus network and information systems

April 2010 - January 2013:

• Professor, Information Security Laboratory, Collaborative Research Laboratories, Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies (ACCMS), Kyoto University (in accordance with IIMC, Kyoto University)
• Internet security technology research for the massively concurrent and parallel distributed computing environment

April 2005 - March 2010:

• Expert Researcher, Network Security Incident Response Group (formerly Security Advancement Group), National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
  • Architectural design of nicter incident response and analysis system
  • DNS Security research on the transport layer issues
  • Architectural research of NGN and IPv6 security issues
  • Security enhancement research of Erlang/OTP concurrent programming system

May 2007 - May 2010:

• Associate editor of IEICE Transactions of Communications

January 2001 - March 2005:

• Senior Research Engineer, KDDI R&D Laboratories, Inc. DNS, IDS, and teleworking research, including the joint research of DNS security with Osaka University Cybermedia Center

March 2001 - present:

• Certification of the Professional Engineer
• Certified as a Gijyutsushi, Japanese government-licensed professional/consulting engineer, of information engineering since 14 March, 2001 (Gijyutsushi registration number: 45374)

April 1992 - December 2000:

• Staff Engineer, Project Leader and Deputy Manager, TDI Research Center of Advanced Computer Network Technology
• Corporate Internet development and operation, and WIDE Project Kyoto NOC operation support

April 1990 - April 1992:

• Engineer, Digital Equipment Corporation Japan R&D Center Screen Management Library (SMGRTL) development for Asian VMS and VMS/Japanese development

Kenji Rikitake's LinkedIn profile as of 11-MAY-2013 (pdf)

License/Certification

• University Degrees
  • Ph.D of Information Science, Osaka University (March 2005)
  • PhD thesis: A Study of DNS Transport Protocol for Improving the Reliability
  • Master of Engineering (for Information Engineering), University of Tokyo (March 1990)
  • Bachelor of Engineering (for Instrumentation Physics), University of Tokyo (March 1988)
• Membership of professional/volunteer societies
  • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (Professional/Life Member, Senior Member since March 2009)
  • American Radio Relay League (Life Member)
  • Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (Senior Member since May 2010)
  • Institution of Professional Engineers, Japan
  • Internet Society