Hiro Sugawara
Software Engineer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHiro Sugawara is a seasoned software engineer with 11+ years focused on Linux kernel and firmware development, currently applying deep storage and networking expertise at HPE on NimbleOS. His career spans embedded and high-performance systems at companies including NETGEAR, NVIDIA, and ARLO, where he architected kernel-level BTRFS improvements, custom drivers, and resilient real-time A/V upload strategies. He has repeatedly delivered large performance wins (hardware CRC offload, splice optimizations, RAID/bit-rot repair) and led ports across multiple CPU architectures and 20+ hardware platforms. Known for pragmatic low-level problem solving, he blends kernel internals with userland tooling, remote debugging, and containerized workflows. A longtime hobbyist builder of home media, security, and IoT systems, he brings hands-on production experience from FPGA/JTAG to ARM/MIPS targets. Based in San Jose with roots at Tokyo Metropolitan University and Waseda, he combines global systems thinking with a knack for inventive engineering tradeoffs.
11 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
BSEE/MSEE, Acoustic Engineering/Digital Signal Processing for multimedia, BSEE/MSEE, Acoustic Engineering/Digital Signal Processing for multimedia at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
English, Japanese
Github Skills (60)
julia10
julialang8
journal7
crystallography7
systems-biology6
wrapper6
condensed-matter-physics6
scrapbox6
quantum-mechanics6
monte-carlo5
molecular-simulation5
pluto5
fenics5
biology4
simulation4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hsugawa8651/jupyter_to_scrapbox_gem
Jul 2017 - Mar 2020
Contributions:30 commits, 1 PR, 33 pushes in 2 years 7 months
pythonjson-filejupyter-notebooknotebookscrapbox
hsugawa8651/juliadoc-trans-ja
Nov 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:416 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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