Akinori Musha
Senior Expert (Web) at Self-Employed
Chiyoda, Japan
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Top SchoolAkinori Musha is a Senior Web Expert based in Chiyoda, Japan, with 26 years of experience building and advising web products, platforms, and engineering teams. He combines deep Ruby/DevOps expertise—evidenced by being a Ruby committer and co-maintainer of Huginn—with hands-on work across databases and cloud (Postgres/MySQL, AWS/GCP). As CTO of WED, Inc. and a long-time systems consultant, he blends leadership with practical engineering, shipping backend features, test automation, and cross-platform UI improvements. His open-source footprint spans core Ruby, Nokogiri, RuboCop, Flow types, and tooling for Emacs and macOS automation, showing a rare mix of language/runtime-level contributions and developer UX work. Notably, he has improved critical libraries (Ruby core enumerators, SSH proxy handling, HTML parsing) that impact many downstream projects. He is fluent at turning subtle protocol and tooling edge-cases into robust, well-tested solutions.
26 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
武蔵高等学校慶應義塾大学
Japanese, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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28kreached
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Github Skills (95)
rubocop10
programming-language10
flow-control10
testing10
http10
test-framework10
proxy10
c1110
type-definition10
remap10
ruby10
c1710
mappings10
lua10
mspec10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
huginn/huginn
Feb 2014 - Jan 2023
Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf. Your agents are standing by!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 109 reviews, 942 commits in 9 years
Contributions summary:Akinori primarily contributed to the back-end development of the Huginn project. Their work involved implementing features and fixing issues within the existing Twitter and FTP agents by modifying Ruby files. This included adding functionalities like including tweet IDs in payloads, updating specs for TwitterPublishAgent, and implementing a new FtpsiteAgent. They also refactored code, demonstrating a focus on improving functionality and code quality in the agents.
rssmonitornotificationshuginnmonitoring
sparklemotion/mechanize
Jun 2009 - Jun 2018
Mechanize is a ruby library that makes automated web interaction easy.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:231 commits, 21 PRs, 51 pushes in 9 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Akinori significantly contributed to the Mechanize library, primarily focusing on enhancing its core functionality. They implemented features to handle different HTTP methods (GET, HEAD, DELETE, TRACE, PUT, and POST), including the ability to post entities directly and incorporate additional headers. They also made crucial fixes to the internal workings of the library. The changes reveal expertise in understanding and modifying core web interaction functionalities.
interactionrubyscrapingruby-librarymechanize
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