Edwin Takahashi
Senior Quality Engineer at Kraken
Kyoto, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolEdwin Takahashi is a Senior Quality Engineer with 12 years of experience building CI/CD, automation and developer tooling for products that reach millions, including Mozilla Firefox and WordPress.com. He combines hands-on production coding and test automation with process improvement—once optimizing an in-house framework to deliver a 1000% performance gain and helping cut Firefox CI spend by millions. Comfortable in remote-first, international teams, Edwin frequently bridges technical and non-technical stakeholders, explaining agile practices to traditional Japanese clients and driving cross-functional initiatives. An active contributor to open-source projects like Mozilla’s Treeherder (UI enhancements for CI visibility), he ranks among the top contributors on his teams and regularly ships both test and production code. He brings a pragmatic, kaizen-minded approach to quality engineering, hiring/onboarding, and documentation that prevents regressions and speeds delivery.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Software Systems, Bachelor's Degree, Software Systems at Simon Fraser University
English, Japanese
Github Skills (7)
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
continuous-integration8
django5
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla/treeherder
Aug 2019 - Jun 2020
A system for managing CI data for Mozilla projects
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 13 PRs, 21 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Edwin primarily focused on modifying the UI of the Treeherder project. Their contributions include updating platform labels, specifically for Linux 18.04, removing outdated OS X references, and adding a button to copy task labels. The majority of the changes are concentrated on `constants.js` and `JobInfo.jsx` files, suggesting their work revolved around the display and usability of build information.
reactpythondjango-rest-frameworkdjangodocker
Automattic/wp-calypso-test-results
Sep 2022 - Sep 2023
Contributions:12 PRs, 185 pushes, 12 branches in 11 months
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