Akihito Nakano
Web Application Developer
Japan
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Top SchoolAkihito Nakano is a web application and network developer with 14 years of experience, currently working on Ethereum consensus and networking at Sigma Prime while also driving server-side e-commerce systems at Askul. He combines practical backend expertise in Kotlin, PHP, Rust and distributed systems with hands-on infrastructure skills across AWS, gRPC, Terraform and Ansible. A prolific open-source contributor, Akihito has improved widely used projects like swagger-codegen and the Rust libp2p and Lighthouse clients, focusing on protocol correctness, type handling, and robustness. Unusually for an engineer, he began his professional journey studying guitar rather than computer science and still pursues music alongside continuous self-study in CS via Coursera. That blend of discipline, curiosity, and real-world patching of critical blockchain and API tooling makes him effective at both stabilizing legacy systems and building forward-looking peer-to-peer software.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Guitar music, Guitar music at Japan Guitar College
Japanese
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Github Skills (54)
code-optimization10
beacon10
solidity10
peer-to-peer10
testing10
decentralization10
swagger10
networking10
java10
libp2p10
javas10
plasmoid10
php10
code-generation10
api-specification10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
sigp/lighthouse
Mar 2020 - Nov 2022
Ethereum consensus client in Rust
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:106 reviews, 37 commits, 90 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Akihito primarily contributed to the core functionality and stability of the Ethereum consensus client. They fixed bugs related to incorrect error messages, incomplete builds, and Eth1 data underflow. Additionally, they refactored and optimized code related to Eth2Config generation and improved the codebase by replacing assertions and removing outdated comments.
consensusethereumrusteth2proof-of-stake
bernardphp/bernard
Jul 2017 - Aug 2018
Bernard is a multi-backend PHP library for creating background jobs for later processing.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:11 commits, 3 PRs, 9 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Akihito primarily focused on improving the FlatFileDriver within the Bernard library. Their contributions included fixing race conditions, addressing issues where the driver did not notice new messages, and optimizing dependencies. Furthermore, they added a test to reproduce a specific bug and fixed a test failure related to build configurations.
backendphp-library
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