Kazuho Oku
Senior Principal Open Source Software Developer at Fastly
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolKazuho Oku is a Senior Principal Open Source Software Developer based in Tokyo with 16 years of experience building high-performance networking and systems software. He leads development on H2O, an optimized HTTP/1–3 server, and has deep expertise in TLS, QUIC/HTTP3 integration, and performance tuning for real-world deployments. A prolific open-source contributor, his low-level work spans lightweight language runtimes (mruby), tiny HTTP parsers, and robust C/C++ libraries like picojson and picohttpparser. His background includes building deployment systems, a cloud gaming engine, and language tooling (JSX) at scale, reflecting a blend of systems architecture and practical product shipping. Notably, he pairs protocol-level security improvements with pragmatic optimizations such as sendfile and QAT acceleration, demonstrating a rare combination of cryptographic awareness and systems performance engineering.
16 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
University of Tokyo
Japanese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (40)
json-parser10
json10
ss10
c-language10
lib10
ssl10
api-design10
http10
jsonp10
sslv310
data-serialization10
c1110
perl10
psgi10
ruby10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
h2o/h2o
Jun 2014 - Jan 2023
H2O - the optimized HTTP/1, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 server
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:70 releases, 667 reviews, 7909 commits in 8 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Kazuho's commits focused on enhancing the security and functionality of the H2O HTTP server, specifically in the context of TLS 1.2 and HTTP/3. They implemented features such as moving TLS state to picotls after the handshake to optimize performance. The commits also added the necessary code to enable QUIC with a focus on improving security and stability of the underlying network traffic. Further improvements include enabling and testing QAT-based performance optimizations.
h2ohttp-clientfiddlerhttp2optimized
h2o/picohttpparser
Oct 2009 - Feb 2021
tiny HTTP parser written in C (used in HTTP::Parser::XS et al.)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:139 commits, 37 PRs, 34 pushes in 11 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Kazuho primarily contributed to the HTTP parser library by refactoring and improving the code. They implemented error checks and added tests to ensure robustness. The contributions included minor code cleanup and style unification. The user also introduced and implemented the chunked encoding decoder.
http-parserhttp-headertinyparser
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