Chief Technology Officer Japan · Global perspective

Emi Yamamoto

Engineering the platforms on which the future is built.

Engineering choices shape what a product can become.

Open to Board appointments · Advisory roles · Speaking invitations

A career in chapters.

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2020 — Present
Chief Technology Officer
Aldermoor Group
Leading technology strategy, platform direction and engineering capability. Connecting product ambition with architecture choices, reliability expectations and the technical leadership needed to scale delivery.
2016 — 2020
Vice President, Engineering
Fairhaven Holdings
Built engineering teams and delivery practices across product and platform work. Developed technical leaders, clarified ownership and improved how teams evaluated design choices and operational feedback.
2013 — 2018
VP Engineering, Platforms
Lumen Payments
Rebuilt the payments platform for real-time scale and grew the engineering organisation from 80 to 600.
2007 — 2013
Principal Engineer
Kestrel Systems
Designed distributed systems used by national exchanges, and learned that reliability is a product feature.

Technology strategy / Platform engineering / Responsible AI / Product innovation

The leadership record

“Shipping six times faster with fewer incidents”The Technology Leaders Review · 2025
“What responsible AI looks like in production”The Applied AI Forum · 2024
“Episode 131 — Platforms as strategy”The Leadership Ledger podcast · 2024

Builds platforms the business can bet on, and engineering teams people want to join.

Elena MorettiChief Executive, Lumen Payments

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For board, advisory and leadership conversations where technology strategy matters.

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