Hirokazu Suzuki
Assistant Manager at Yamaha Corporation
Yokohama, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolHirokazu Suzuki is an experienced software engineer and assistant manager at Yamaha Corporation with over a decade working on network products, particularly wireless LAN access points, controllers, and Layer 2 switches. He has led firmware development for AP products and now helps guide the Network Software Group, blending hands-on embedded systems expertise with team leadership. His academic work investigated ad hoc wireless deployments for disaster areas, reflecting a long-standing interest in resilient networking. Outside of product work he contributes to open-source, notably enhancing the Ruby bindings of Apache Arrow (red-arrow) to improve table operations, CSV I/O, and slicing functionality. Based in Yokohama, he combines practical firmware craftsmanship with a penchant for cross-disciplinary engineering, informed by experience in thermal and multiphysics simulation from earlier laser device projects.
4 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Engineering, Information Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering, Information Engineering at Niigata UniversityDropped out from Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering, Dropped out from Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering at Graduate School of Science and Technology, Niigata University
Github Skills (4)
apache-arrow10
ruby10
testing9
parquet7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
apache/arrow
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
Apache Arrow is the universal columnar format and multi-language toolbox for fast data interchange and in-memory analytics
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:32 reviews, 5 commits, 9 PRs in 21 days
Contributions summary:Hirokazu primarily contributed to the Ruby implementation within the Apache Arrow project, specifically focusing on the `red-arrow` component. Their work involved adding and modifying methods related to table operations such as `column_names` and `join`. They also refactored and added functionality to the CSV saving feature within the `red-arrow` component and expanded the slicing functionality, adding several new methods. These changes enhance the usability and functionality of the Ruby bindings for the Arrow project.
memorymulti-languagetoolboxacceleratedarrow
heronshoes/arrow
Dec 2022 - Nov 2023
Apache Arrow is a multi-language toolbox for accelerated data interchange and in-memory processing
Contributions:104 pushes, 34 branches in 10 months
memorypolarsmulti-languagetoolboxdata-processing
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