Hidetake Iwata
Software Engineer at quipper
Chiyoda, Japan
Summary
🤩
RockstarHidetake Iwata is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience specializing in software and cloud architecture, CI/CD, and backend systems. Based in Chiyoda, Japan, he blends hands-on engineering with strong DevOps instincts—improving observability, stability, and autoscaling in Kubernetes controllers and CI runners. An active open-source contributor, he has strengthened authentication and webhook reliability in projects like kubelogin and GitBucket while adding production-ready metrics and integration tests to actions-runner-controller. Outside of code, he’s a family-oriented developer who brings the same practical care to projects as he does to his interests in rabbits and craft beer.
14 years of coding experience
Japanese, English
Stackoverflow
26reputation
286reached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (23)
git10
kubernetes10
github-ci10
apidoc10
openid-connect10
oid10
user-authentication10
authentication10
scala10
scalatra10
go10
api10
kubernetes-pods10
githubaction-workflow10
oauth10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
int128/kubelogin
Mar 2018 - Jan 2023
kubectl plugin for Kubernetes OpenID Connect authentication (kubectl oidc-login)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:69 releases, 31 reviews, 430 commits in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Hidetake appears to have been involved in the development of the project's core functionality. Their commits suggest they were responsible for implementing or fixing bugs related to the authentication. The code changes include fixes for issues like null pointer exceptions and receiving authentication codes, indicating a focus on the project's underlying logic. These modifications demonstrate their involvement in critical components.
golangopenidoidckubectlauthentication
actions/actions-runner-controller
Feb 2021 - Aug 2021
Kubernetes controller for GitHub Actions self-hosted runners
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 11 commits, 11 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Hidetake primarily contributed to improving the monitoring and stability of the GitHub Actions runner controller. They added metrics for GitHub API rate limits to improve observability and implemented fixes for potential nil pointer errors in the webhook handling code. Furthermore, they added integration tests and addressed issues with the webhook payload. They also introduced metrics related to HorizontalRunnerAutoscaler and RunnerDeployment status.
controllerhostedrunnersoperatorself-hosted-actions
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.