Kaz Yoshihara
Senior Software Engineer at Andela
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKaz Yoshihara is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience, based in Los Angeles and currently contributing at Andela and to Codewars. He brings deep backend expertise in Rust and Kubernetes—having improved CRD schema generation in the widely used kube-rs project—and has strengthened native TLS handling in rust-native-tls to improve security and stability. Kaz also contributes to developer-facing documentation and front-end experiences for Codewars, combining technical writing with UI work to make tooling more accessible. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs rigorous testing and build engineering with a practical eye for developer ergonomics, often surfacing subtle API and validation issues before they reach production.
10 years of coding experience
Temple University
Github Skills (40)
markdown10
kubernetes10
javascript10
tls1210
gridsome10
tls1310
mtls10
markdown-it10
tailwindcss10
vue10
cryptography10
kubernetes-pods10
libtls10
rust10
serde10
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
codewars/codewars.com
Jun 2017 - Nov 2022
Issue tracker for Codewars
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:27 commits, 7 PRs, 17 pushes in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Kaz primarily focuses on creating and updating test reference documentation for various programming languages within the repository. They add new test reference documents for Crystal, Dart, Elixir, OCaml, PHP, Rust, and TypeScript, and update existing documentation. The changes include setting up basic test structures and listing assertions, illustrating the usage of relevant testing frameworks and libraries.
reacttrackerjavascriptnodejsissue-tracker
codewars/docs
Jun 2020 - Jul 2022
The Codewars Docs :construction: WIP
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:188 reviews, 218 commits, 279 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Kaz primarily focused on developing the front-end components and structure for the Codewars documentation site. Their work included initializing a Gridsome project using the docc starter and implementing the layout, header, and search components. The user also contributed to theming, styling, and overall improvements to the documentation's visual appearance and user experience. They also updated dependencies and configured various plugins for the documentation.
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