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# Hiroshi Tanaka

Principal engineer specializing in observability and distributed systems at a major US-based cloud infrastructure company. Hiroshi joined the podcast to discuss the art and science of debugging production systems at scale, covering observability tooling, incident response workflows, and the human factors that determine whether a team can effectively diagnose complex failures. He brought deep technical expertise honed over a decade of working on large-scale distributed systems.

## Notes

- Methodical and deeply technical; the episode required more editing than usual because of the density of content, but the result was excellent
- His concept of "observability as a team capability rather than a tooling choice" resonated strongly with the audience
- Quiet and thoughtful in conversation; takes time to formulate precise answers rather than giving quick reactions
- Shared a post-mortem template that Luca adopted for his own incident review process

## Collaborations

- [[24q3-podcast-season-2]] — recorded episode on debugging production systems and observability
- [[topic-ai-ml]] — touched on ML-assisted anomaly detection in observability
- [[procedure-podcast-guest-outreach]] — connected through SRE community on Twitter
