Hideki Shiro
Software Engineer at Sony
Yokohama, Japan
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Top SchoolHideki Shiro is a software engineer based in Yokohama, Japan, with 13 years of experience building front-end and system-focused solutions at large electronics firms like Ricoh and Sony. He holds a master's in software engineering and a bachelor's in electronics from Doshisha University, blending formal engineering training with practical product development. At Sony he continues to deliver production-grade software, drawing on six years at Ricoh where he honed systems thinking in hardware-adjacent environments. His open-source work includes implementing SVG text-to-path functionality—authoring getD, getPath, getSVG and getMetrics methods and accompanying tests—showing a knack for precise, testable front-end engineering. Colleagues would describe him as a steady, detail-oriented engineer who translates UI geometry and metrics into reliable, reusable components. He brings deep domain knowledge of embedded and application-level software, often tackling problems where visuals meet low-level rendering constraints.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Software Engineering, Master's degree, Software Engineering at 同志社大学
Japanese, Chinese
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Github Skills (7)
testing10
javascript10
svg10
theta3606
sonarqube6
android6
java6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
shrhdk/text-to-svg
Mar 2015 - Nov 2020
Convert text to SVG path without native dependence.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:98 commits, 7 PRs, 46 pushes in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Hideki contributed primarily to the front-end development of the project. Their commits focused on implementing new features, specifically the `getD`, `getPath`, `getSVG` and `getMetrics` methods within the `TextToSVG` class. This indicates they were responsible for transforming text into SVG path data and creating the necessary HTML structure for displaying the SVG. The commits demonstrate the creation of tests to validate the implemented functions.
dependencesvgjavascriptwoff2woff
shrhdk/shiro.be
Apr 2015 - Feb 2024
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 11 months
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