Eisuke Kikuchi is a production control professional with 11 years of technical and consulting experience, recently transitioning into a manufacturing role at Tiger Corporation after several years as a consultant at Deloitte Tohmatsu. He blends hands-on software engineering chops—demonstrated by substantive open-source contributions to high-profile projects like Neovim, Vim, LLVM, RDKit and Open Babel—with business-facing skills in process analysis and management. His code work spans syntax and tooling improvements, cross-language backend fixes, test automation and format support, showing a pragmatic attention to quality and interoperability. Trained in international management (MSc, King's College London) and business from Keio University, he pairs analytical rigor with global business perspective. An under-the-radar strength is his knack for improving developer tooling and documentation, which often yields outsized benefits for long-lived engineering projects.
11 years of coding experience
甲南高校
Bachelor's degree, BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT, MARKETING, AND RELATED SUPPORT SERVICES, Bachelor's degree, BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT, MARKETING, AND RELATED SUPPORT SERVICES at 慶應義塾大学
MSc International Management, MSc International Management at King's College London
Contributions:18 reviews, 20 PRs, 61 comments in 9 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Eisuke contributed to the Vim text editor project by addressing filetype recognition and syntax highlighting issues across multiple file types. They added support for recognizing `dash` as a shell file type, updated the syntax for `sshconfig`, `sshdconfig`, and `logindefs` files, and improved highlighting in `tex` and `po` files. Additionally, the user made a change to the `sh` syntax script, removing duplicated keywords and adding `bash coproc` and `COPROC_PID` keywords.
Open Babel is a chemical toolbox designed to speak the many languages of chemical data.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:2 reviews, 42 commits, 47 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Eisuke focused on enhancing the Gaussian format support within the Open Babel library. They updated the format to include missing elements like the `gzmat` format, updated URLs, and commented out certain sections in the output. The user also made improvements to a Python script by correcting deprecated functionalities and removing unused modules. Additionally, they addressed file format handling, and made changes related to error handling in several tools.
chemical-datacheminformaticsbabelchemistrytoolbox
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