Edson Yanaga
Staff Developer Relations Engineer, Wallet Lead
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area United States
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Top SchoolEdson Yanaga is a Staff Developer Relations Engineer and Wallet Lead at Google with 14 years of experience building developer-centric products and cloud-native systems. A Java Champion and former 7× Microsoft MVP, he blends hands-on engineering—demonstrated by backend and DevOps contributions to Spring Boot microservices like an Istio tutorial repo—with strategic developer experience leadership from roles at Red Hat and as a Principal Consultant. He creates content, runs workshops, and shapes product strategy to help teams deliver reliable software faster, reflecting a lifelong commitment to meaningful, high-quality code. Based in the Raleigh-Durham area, he combines academic teaching experience and a master’s in industrial informatics with prolific public speaking and authorship, making developer empowerment both his vocation and vocation-driven hobby.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Universidade Estadual de MaringáMaster’s Degree, Eletrical Engineering and Industrial Informatics, Master’s Degree, Eletrical Engineering and Industrial Informatics at Federal University of Technology - Parana
English, French, Portuguese, Japanese, Spanish
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Github Skills (23)
microservices-application10
java10
javas10
spring-boot10
microservices10
api-design9
restful-api9
api-rest9
kubernetes9
tracer9
kubernetes-pods9
trace9
rest-api9
istio9
openshift8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
redhat-scholars/istio-tutorial
Jan 2018 - Mar 2019
Istio Tutorial for https://dn.dev/master
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:55 commits, 13 PRs, 34 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Edson primarily contributed to the back-end services, specifically implementing features to forward HTTP headers, which included modifications across multiple Spring Boot-based microservices. They demonstrated proficiency in Java and Spring Boot. Furthermore, the user made modifications to build and deployment configurations.
envoydevtracingmasteropenshift
redhat-developer-demos/eda-tutorial
Oct 2018 - Mar 2020
Event-Driven Tutorial for Distributed Data with CQRS and Event Sourcing
Contributions:117 commits, 2 PRs, 69 pushes in 1 year 5 months
eventsourcingeventstoredddevent-sourcingcqrs
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