Suguru Kurihara is an engineer at Net One Systems with over 20 years of experience in the IT industry. Having built his career as an open-systems application developer — primarily in Java-based web application development — he joined Net One Systems in 2018. Since then, he has been involved in the development and operation of in-house applications, as well as the research and validation of network automation and autonomous networking services, bringing a deep software engineering perspective to the evolving field of network automation and autonomy.