Tokyo,but notTokyo
Illustration of Naoyuki and his wife, smiling
Naoyuki and Sayoko
Based inTama New Town, Western Tokyo, for 15 years
LanguagesEnglish and Japanese
In Japan since2007
WritingLinkedIn, collected on the Tech page
About

Naoyuki Maruya

丸屋直幸

I grew up in Honolulu and have lived in Japan since 2007. My career has been in corporate IT: global IT strategy, infrastructure and digital portfolio management, mostly at multinational companies with a presence in Japan.

I got into computers in the early 1990s by building my own PC instead of buying a Dell or a Compaq. That habit of wanting to see how the machine is put together has stayed with me, and it shapes how I write about IT, AI and the way companies run.

Previously

Deputy General Manager, Global IT Division, Money Forward. Senior Manager, Digital Technology Services, Coca-Cola JSK. Earlier roles at Netflix, Electronic Arts, GRI Japan and HAVI Global Solutions.

Why Tokyo, but not Tokyo

Tama New Town is in Tokyo Prefecture, and it feels like a different city from the 23 wards. My wife and I have lived here for 15 years. This site is about working in technology from a quiet, human-scale part of the Tokyo suburbs.

I am open to conversations about corporate IT and corporate culture.