Haruka Watanabe
Curriculum director
Owns relational tracks and mentor rubrics.
Sysgen Cloudx began as late-night pairing sessions between product engineers and database folks who were tired of glossaries that never matched production. We formalized those sessions into cohorts with explicit rubrics, mentor-written diffs, and runbooks learners keep after the last lecture.
Japan remains our scheduling anchor: evening blocks that respect JST, bilingual mentor coverage where promised, and case studies that acknowledge domestic data residency conversations without turning lessons into sales collateral.
Drills produce artifacts — graphs, Markdown, recorded timings — not applause lines.
We teach precise vocabulary, but slides stay readable to adjacent teams.
Load generators stay in sandboxes; destructive examples ship with guardrails.
Support staff track accessibility needs and timezone clashes before week one.
Eighteen people across instruction, mentorship, curriculum design, career coaching, and support.
Curriculum director
Owns relational tracks and mentor rubrics.
Principal instructor
Postgres internals labs and WAL clinics.
Performance coach
Indexing reviews with product squads.
Instructor
Transactions cohorts for payments teams.
Mentor lead
Replication tabletop exercises.
Curriculum designer
Dimensional modeling studios.
Instructor
ETL staging patterns.
Instructor
Warehouse comparisons without vendor hype.
Security mentor
Least-privilege labs.
Instructor
Backup drills and dry runs.
Instructor
Distributed query engines.
Capstone director
Portfolio reviews and story coaching.
Career coach
Interview narratives for Japan market.
Support lead
Schedules and accessibility accommodations.
Curriculum editor
Plain-language legal and policy cross-checks.
Mentor
Async code reviews for SQL tracks.
Mentor
Observability hooks for capstones.
Operations
Vendor logistics for live sessions.