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Why AI Must Become a Core Engineering Capability

We believe that AI is no longer just a productivity tool, but a fundamental component of modern software development.
For an engineering organization, the real challenge is not whether to use AI, but how to systematically build the capability to use it well.

Hi, I’m Hantus, a product designer at Colorkrew.

Colorkrew is my first company after graduating, and this is also my first experience working in a professional IT environment. I joined with limited industry experience and many things to learn.

In this article, I’d like to share why I chose Colorkrew, what it was like joining as a new graduate, and what I’ve experienced so far in my day-to-day work.

Six months ago, I joined Colorkrew as a software engineer, and it’s amazing how quickly that half-year has flown by. I hoped to find a place where I could grow, contribute meaningfully, and work with people who truly care about what they do, and that’s exactly what I found - plus more good food and laughter than I expected!

My journey begins in 2014. I graduated high school in spring and like many of my peers, I went off to college in fall. Things went okay at the start; I was enjoying my journey. Along the way I realized that I was a bit lost. I didn’t know what I wanted to do. Between that feeling of being lost and some medical issues I was facing, I ultimately decided it was best to leave college, which is what I did in the spring of 2017.

At Colorkrew, we provide multiple services to our customers. These services needs to be secure. As a DevOps engineer, I need to make sure I am familiar and up to date with the ways bad actors try to gain unauthorized access to various systems, and how to restrict access to them to increase our security posture. Today I want to share a few ways I use to increase my knowledge within Cybersecurity that I believe is fun and really valuable for me.

A New Chapter in Japan: From the Philippines to Colorkrew

When I first set my sights on working in Japan as a software engineer, I knew the road wouldn’t be easy. The journey was filled with multiple interview rounds, each one giving me a better sense of the company and its people. What stood out the most during those sessions was how open and transparent everyone was. That honesty—rare in many corporate settings—was a big part of why I felt Colorkrew was the right place for me.

At Colorkrew, knowing Japanese is not a requirement to work with us. Our team communicates effectively in English, making it easy for non-Japanese speakers to thrive.

However, learning Japanese can be incredibly beneficial for daily life in Japan. From simple interactions at shops and restaurants to navigating administrative tasks, having some Japanese skills can make your experience smoother and more enjoyable. While it’s possible to live comfortably in Japan without knowing the language, many people eventually realize the benefits of learning it as they settle into daily life.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) CodePipeline Team has simplified Developer, DevOps engineers operational overhead and streamlined the Deployment process to EC2 by introducing an CodePipeline action to deploy directly to your EC2 instances.

Why does it matter to you?

Previously, if you wanted to deploy to EC2 instances, you had to use CodeDeploy with an AppSpec file to configure the deployment. After this update NO NEED TO MANAGE CODEDEPLOY RESOURCE AND APPSPEC FILE.

I’ve always been interested in Japanese culture and admired how disciplined the people are. So, when I started looking for jobs, Japan was at the top of my list. While browsing a job website, I found a company called “Colorkrew”.

At first, I liked Colorkrew because it had a flat hierarchy and a salary that was kinda okay for senior engineers. As I moved to the second, third, and final interviews, I read more about the company’s blogs and achievements. I started liking it even more. The CEO was very open about his schedule, foreigners were treated well, and the company felt more like a community than a typical workplace. It didn’t match the strict, overtime-heavy, seniority-driven image I had of Japanese companies.

Overview

As remote work continues to grow in popularity, more companies are adopting flexible policies to accommodate employees’ varying needs. For many people, especially those from other countries working abroad, the ability to work from their home country for a short period is an invaluable benefit. I recently had the opportunity to experience this firsthand, and I’d like to share my experience, how my company’s policy works, and the benefits of this flexibility for foreign employees.

It can be hard to define what makes a “good” team lead, but you can always strive to be a better one. Since joining Colorkrew, I’ve taken on the role of Team Lead for our Workflow product, managing the team to ensure our work progresses smoothly and that we create the best products for our customers.

During AWS re:Invent 2024 AWS released a new feature to EKS i.e EKS Auto Mode, which I have already covered in detail in my previous blog

In this blog we will see how we can create cluster with EKS Auto mode using the OG “terraform-eks-module” and how it simplified my eks.tf code.

AWS re:Invent has begun and there are tons of new service and feature announcement from the AWS CEO Matt Garman’s Keynote ( check my x/bluesky thread from the keynote updates)

In this blog we will investigate about Amazon Aurora DSQL which is serverless, distributed SQL database with virtually unlimited scale, high availability, and zero infrastructure management claiming 99.99% single-Region and 99.999% multi-Region availability.

AWS re:Invent hasn’t officially begun, yet there is a game changing new feature to EKS to make you run Kubernetes like a pro!!!

In this blog we will investigate what EKS Auto Mode is all about and illustrates how to enables EKS Auto Mode on existing cluster and try to migrate to our managed node groups workloads to EKS auto mode of an existing cluster but we will be not able to do that, find out why in the blog!