Eric Nakagawa
Co-Founder & Advisor at Self Labs
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolEric Nakagawa is a serial founder and software leader with 13+ years building consumer web, mobile, and blockchain products from startup to acquisition. Currently co-founder and advisor at Self Labs, he leverages zero-knowledge and privacy-first design to solve real-identity problems on the internet, after leading developer growth and global onboarding efforts at the Celo Foundation. He combines full-stack engineering chops—contributions to high-profile open-source projects like Jest and Docusaurus—with product and growth experience from ventures including icanhascheezburger and simplehoney (acquired by Ripple). Known for shipping pragmatic developer tooling and documentation fixes across major projects, he blends technical execution with community building to scale platforms and developer ecosystems. Based in San Francisco, he pairs entrepreneurial risk-taking with a clear focus on privacy-preserving, mobile-first access to decentralized technology.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
ICS, ICS at University of Hawaii at Manoa
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Github Skills (45)
javascript10
website-development10
css10
web-deploy10
cicd10
pretier10
localization10
web-deployment10
html10
cuda10
jenkins10
prettify10
nodejs10
docusaurus10
jenkins-ci10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
celo-org/docs
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:60 reviews, 68 commits, 64 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the documentation of the Celo platform. Their work included updating the `docusaurus.config.js` file to include google analytics and sitemap generation, as well as fixing broken links and resolving build issues. They also made changes to the custom CSS, and added a tutorial. Furthermore, they added hubspot support to the documentation site.
diem/website
Jun 2019 - Sep 2020
Libra’s mission is to enable a simple global currency and financial infrastructure that empowers billions of people.
Role in this project:Front-end & DevOps Engineer
Front-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:71 commits, 80 PRs, 69 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on front-end development tasks, including fixing JavaScript and form-related bugs. They also made updates to the website's user interface, such as adding a newsletter and forum links in the footer and modifying the 404 page. Additionally, the user's contributions extend to DevOps aspects, including automating the website build process and modifying the build script to incorporate Netlify PR doc previews.
financialreactjavascriptinfrastructurecurrency
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