Hank Ehly is a Senior Consultant in Data & Analytics with over a decade of experience building scalable data platforms, cloud infrastructure, and end-to-end ML pipelines for production workloads. Based in Fujisawa, Japan, he combines software engineering and BI expertise to modernize SaaS platforms, cut cloud costs, and accelerate large-scale electricity usage analysis for energy-focused businesses. Hank is bilingual in English and Japanese and known for clear communication that builds trust across multicultural teams. He contributes to prominent open-source projects like Apache Airflow (adding practical data-integration and workflow features) and has hands-on front-end build tooling experience from Angular ecosystem work. His background in linguistics and music gives him an uncommon blend of analytical rigor and creative problem-solving that informs pragmatic, user-focused solutions.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Linguistics, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Linguistics at University of Kansas
Linguistics (BA), Linguistics (BA) at Sophia University (Tokyo, Japan)
Commercial Music (BA), Commercial Music (BA) at Belmont University
Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows
Role in this project:
Data Engineer
Contributions:99 reviews, 20 PRs, 172 comments in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Hank contributed to the Apache Airflow project by adding features and making improvements primarily related to data integration and workflow management. Their work included adding an autodetect argument to the BQCreateExternalTable Operator, supporting log downloads in the task log view, and supporting importing connections from .yml files. Additionally, the user updated code examples and set template fields on RDS operators, improving the usability of the Airflow platform.
🌱 [Deprecated] Extensible, reliable, modular, PWA ready starter project for Angular (2 and beyond) with statically typed build and AoT compilation
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:15 commits, 6 PRs, 25 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Hank focused on enhancing the build process and integrating SCSS stylesheet handling within the Angular seed project. They added and modified build tasks to correctly process SCSS files, integrate them into the development and production builds, and also included linting for SCSS files. Furthermore, the user updated the build process to correctly inject CSS and handle source map generation, making sure the build process is properly integrated. This included changes to the configuration to enable the SCSS functionality.
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