Hirokazu Morikawa
CEO & Founder at Web Operations Laboratory LLC
Kobe, Japan
Summary
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SeniorHirokazu Morikawa is a veteran entrepreneur and systems engineer who has built and led web hosting and operations businesses since the 1990s, founding FirstServer and later Web Operations Laboratory where he continues R&D in WebOps and DevOps practices. Rooted in early experience from COBOL to Z80 assembly and baptized on UNIX, Macintosh and NeXT, he combines deep low-level systems knowledge with decades of large-scale web operations and BGP network operations. He helped establish ISP and web hosting services at Kubota Systems in the 1990s and organized Japan’s first DevOpsDays, bridging community leadership with production engineering. An active open-source maintainer in the OpenWrt ecosystem, he focuses on package maintenance, ICU updates and dependency hygiene—work that materially improves widely used embedded router software. Based in Kobe, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with hands-on patching and infrastructure work, often surfacing subtle dependency and build-failure fixes that keep complex services reliable.
14 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (16)
openwrt10
nodejs10
javascript10
c-language10
cve10
cprogramming-language10
package-management10
patch10
icu9
security9
libuv9
php9
maintenance9
avahi7
npm7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
coolsnowwolf/packages
Jun 2021 - Dec 2022
Community maintained packages for OpenWrt.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:38 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Hirokazu primarily contributes to the `coolsnowwolf/packages` repository, which focuses on community-maintained packages for OpenWrt. Their commits revolve around updating and maintaining packages, specifically focusing on node, php8, icu, mg, libuv and avahi. The user's contributions involve bumping versions of existing packages, integrating security patches, and adapting the build process to support new ICU versions and openwrt tools. They also addresses vulnerabilities in dependent libraries.
openwrtstudio
immortalwrt/packages
Aug 2020 - May 2022
Community maintained packages for ImmortalWrt.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:98 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Hirokazu primarily contributes to syncing the node package with upstream sources, indicating a focus on maintaining the project's dependencies and ensuring it is up-to-date with the latest versions. They made numerous commits that include patching existing packages. Several commits involved removing dependencies, updating package.json files, and adjusting build configurations.
studioopenwrt
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