Katsushi Yamashita is widely known as a technical leader throughout IBM and beyond. He has appointed as a Distinguished Engineer in 2007 according to his achievements on network virtualization technology development. For continuing two years, Yamashita has led transformation of IBM Infrastructure Services making it modern based on Service Science academic study. On 2010, he has been appointed as Chief Technology Officer of Cloud Computing Japan. He has led launching brand-new technical initiatives of cloud, DevOps and large scale data center technologies.
He has been frequently reaching out to IT market in Japan through making invited speech at large public event such as Interop & NAB, and also continuously writing articles in authoritative magazines at Nikkei BP and other publishers.