Aki Sukegawa
Senior Software Engineer at The Apache Software Foundation
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarAki Sukegawa is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with 12 years of experience building and modernizing back-end systems for finance and open-source projects. At Bloomberg he designs and refactors data-feed processing applications while delivering features across distributed teams, and he brings deep low-level C++ and threading experience from long-term contributions to projects like Apache Thrift and Protocol Buffers. As an Apache Thrift committer and PMC member he’s improved test infrastructure, SSL and nonblocking server behavior, and cross-platform build reliability—work that keeps widely used RPC tooling robust. His earlier R&D background spans AR, image processing, and machine learning, giving him a practical systems-and-algorithms mindset beyond typical enterprise engineering. Colleagues rely on him to tame legacy codebases and hard concurrency bugs while shipping production-quality fixes.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
English, French, Japanese, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (22)
debug10
javascript10
c-language10
protocol-buffers10
testing10
qml10
cpp10
thrift10
cprogramming-language10
protobuffer10
protobuf10
test-automation10
compiler-development9
arraybuffer9
qt9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
apache/thrift
Dec 2014 - Mar 2022
Apache Thrift
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:243 commits, 237 PRs, 1 push in 7 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Aki primarily focused on improving the testing infrastructure for the Apache Thrift project. They added new tests to verify the functionality of the `TNonblockingServer`, including tests for port assignment and verifying SSL certificates. Additionally, they implemented fixes for build errors when using different threading models and addressed issues related to generating code for specific languages. This work ensures the continued reliability and cross-platform compatibility of the Thrift library.
actionscriptapache-thriftnetwork-clientdartapache
protocolbuffers/protobuf
Feb 2015 - Aug 2015
Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 PRs, 2 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Aki's commits primarily focused on improving the Protocol Buffers library, addressing several issues related to C++ compatibility and code quality. They fixed typos, made the code compatible with C++11, and added missing exports. Their contributions also involved updating test code and modifying the code generator, indicating their involvement in both code maintenance and the development process.
protocol-buffersrpcgoogle-protocol-buffersinterchange-formatmarshalling
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