Daisuke Kobayashi
Support Engineer at Redpanda Data
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolDaisuke Kobayashi is a seasoned support engineer based in Tokyo with 11 years of experience troubleshooting and operating distributed data systems. He has a strong background at Cloudera and Oracle and now supports Redpanda, contributing not only to customer-facing incident resolution but also to backend and DevOps tooling for a high-performance Kafka-compatible streaming platform. His open-source contributions to Redpanda include enhancing the rpk CLI, metadata inspection tools, and cloud storage mapping utilities—work that blends operational insight with pragmatic developer tooling. Daisuke’s foundation in Kansei Engineering gives him a user-centric angle on technical problems, helping him translate complex system behavior into actionable fixes and clearer diagnostics. Colleagues know him for combining deep technical troubleshooting with clear communication across global teams.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Kansei Engineering, Master, Kansei Engineering at Shinshu University
Github Skills (19)
c-language10
admin10
kafka10
go10
api10
cprogramming-language10
container9
storage-engine9
stream-processing9
kubernetes-pods8
cloud-infrastructure8
kubernetes8
devops8
storage7
microservices-application7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
redpanda-data/redpanda
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Redpanda is a streaming data platform for developers. Kafka API compatible. 10x faster. No ZooKeeper. No JVM!
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:158 reviews, 28 commits, 66 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Daisuke contributed to the Redpanda streaming data platform by implementing tools for metadata viewing, enhancing the rpk command-line interface, and adding a new tool for mapping file paths to cloud storage. Their work included adding logging, improving broker information display, and modifying partition-related configurations. These contributions indicate involvement in both backend functionality and operational aspects of the platform.
realtimezookeeperdata-platformkafka-api10x
daisukebe/redpanda
Mar 2022 - Mar 2025
Redpanda is the real-time engine for modern apps. Kafka API Compatible; 10x faster 🚀 See more at redpanda.com
Contributions:143 pushes, 45 branches in 3 years 1 month
kafka-apiapi10xfasterkafka
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