Akira Hirakawa
Co-Founder at Red Dot Drone
Singapore
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Top SchoolAkira Hirakawa is a software engineer and entrepreneur with 14 years of experience who co-founded Singapore-based drone company Red Dot Drone after leading engineering at Burpple. He blends hands-on engineering—contributing to open-source tooling like SwiftLint—with product and operational leadership across startups, web platforms and big-data projects. A drone pilot with a background ranging from front-end and server-side development to Hadoop, he brings a practical maker’s mindset to building reliable systems and hardware-enabled services. His career includes global perspective gained from freelancing and travel, plus a track record of shipping tooling and code quality improvements that emphasize maintainability and developer experience.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
bachelor Information science, bachelor Information science at Meiji University
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Github Skills (10)
linting10
swift10
static-analysis10
rule10
software-quality10
rule-engine10
testing10
unit-testing9
datetime6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
realm/SwiftLint
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
A tool to enforce Swift style and conventions.
Role in this project:
Software Engineer (Swift) / QA Engineer
Software Engineer (Swift) / QA EngineerContributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 6 comments in 14 days
Contributions summary:Akira primarily contributed to the `SwiftLint` project by implementing and modifying rules related to code style enforcement, specifically regarding whitespace. The user added the `ReturnArrowWhitespaceRule` and the `OperatorFunctionWhitespaceRule`, incorporating new functionality into the linter. They also updated existing tests and refactored to use default parameters, indicating a focus on the quality and maintainability of the code.
linterswift-package-managerbazellintingcode-quality
akirahrkw/python-500px
Jun 2012 - Aug 2018
500px API library for python
Contributions:21 commits, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 6 years 2 months
api-clientapipython500px-apiapi-library
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