Akihiko Kuroda
Senior Software Engineer at IBM
Cary, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolAkihiko Kuroda is a Senior Software Engineer with over 10 years of recent experience and a multi-decade career at IBM spanning firmware to cloud-native middleware. He leads and contributes to open source projects—most notably Tekton CD, the Operator Lifecycle Manager, and a quantum middleware project for Qiskit—bridging CI/CD, Kubernetes operators, and quantum runtime tooling. Known for quickly mastering new technologies, he has deep practical expertise across systems management, network management, JVM-based integrations (Apache Camel), and low-level firmware and terminal protocol work. At IBM he designed multi-tenancy for PureFlex and owned CIM, SMBIOS/IPMI, and protocol-heavy components, demonstrating both hands-on coding and systems design. Based in Cary, NC, he pairs a veteran engineer’s breadth with active open-source collaboration, often improving test reliability and extension points in widely used projects.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Computer Software Engineering, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Computer Software Engineering at 筑波大学 / University of Tsukuba
English, Japanese
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Github Skills (23)
e2e-testing10
kubernetes10
dashboard10
integrate10
api-design10
restful-api10
e2e-test10
testing10
tekton10
apache-camel10
integrations10
java10
javas10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
operator-framework/operator-lifecycle-manager
Nov 2021 - Feb 2022
A management framework for extending Kubernetes with Operators
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:75 reviews, 18 commits, 28 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Akihiko primarily contributed to the repository by addressing various testing-related issues and improving the reliability of the project's testing suite. Their commits focused on fixing intermittent test failures, ensuring the preservation of metrics during testing, and adding waits for specific conditions within the tests. The user's work included modifications to existing end-to-end (e2e) tests, particularly those related to CSV (ClusterServiceVersion), InstallPlan and CatalogSource.
kubernetes-operatorsoperator-sdkkubernetes-applicationsk8s-operatoroperator
tektoncd/dashboard
Apr 2019 - Aug 2019
A dashboard for Tekton!
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:28 commits, 15 PRs, 120 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Akihiko contributed to the Tekton dashboard by implementing extension capabilities and integrating them into the main application. This involved adding API endpoints for extensions, enabling dynamic registration of extensions, and routing requests to the extension services. Additionally, the user made adjustments to the build process within the main application file to incorporate these extensions, indicating involvement in the overall application structure. Furthermore, the user addressed code review comments, enhancing the code's clarity and maintainability.
pythonpipelinetektondashboardui
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