Emma Iwao
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolEmma Iwao is a Senior Software Engineer based in Seattle with 13 years building large-scale cloud and infrastructure systems, currently focused on Compute Engine SRE at Google. She brings deep Google Cloud Platform expertise from roles in Developer Relations, SRE rotations, and customer solutions, combining production reliability with developer-facing tooling. Her open-source contributions span notable projects like google-cloud-ruby, Fluent-Bit, Mozc, and Nextstrain’s Auspice, reflecting proficiency in Ruby, C++ and systems-level improvements. Past work at Red Hat, FreakOut, and GREE demonstrates a sustained focus on high-throughput, virtualized and automated infrastructures across AWS and on-prem platforms. Beyond engineering, she’s an author and hardware enthusiast who brings a gamer’s systems-thinking to performance tuning and operational resilience.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at 筑波大学 / University of Tsukuba
Japanese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (38)
javascript10
google-cloud-platform10
c-language10
translation10
c-programming10
c1110
gcp10
ruby10
c1710
localization10
computer-engineering10
logging10
cprogramming-language10
system-programming9
sha9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
google/mozc
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Mozc - a Japanese Input Method Editor designed for multi-platform
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 36 commits, 6 PRs in 9 days
Contributions summary:Emma's commits primarily involve replacing deprecated DISALLOW_ macros with standard C++ constructs across numerous source files. These changes span various parts of the Mozc codebase, from configuration utilities to storage mechanisms and UI elements. The user also made similar changes to core rendering components and the prediction engine.
input-methodjapanesemethodmulti-platformtext-editor
googleapis/google-cloud-ruby
May 2020 - Jan 2022
Google Cloud Client Library for Ruby
Role in this project:Back-end & Cloud Engineer
Back-end & Cloud EngineerContributions:11 reviews, 5 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Emma contributed to the google-cloud-ruby repository by adding and modifying samples related to Google Cloud services, particularly the Cloud Scheduler and Compute Engine APIs. Their work included creating samples for job creation, deletion, and server interactions, as well as demonstrating pagination techniques for image listing. The user's commits indicate experience with Ruby and interacting with Google Cloud APIs for tasks such as instance management and firewall configuration.
googleclient-librarygoogle-cloud-platformrubygoogle-cloud
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