Kei Akiyama
SWE at PLAID, Inc.
Tsukuba, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolKei Akiyama is a systems-focused software engineer and master's student at the University of Tsukuba with eight years of hands-on experience building production systems and developer tooling. He is an active Rust ecosystem contributor—working on rustc, Clippy, and the Wild linker—and a repeat Google Summer of Code recipient currently porting Wild to WebAssembly for The Rust Foundation. Kei has delivered zero-downtime database migrations and platform work at PLAID, implemented an OCI-compliant container runtime with binary emulation, and co-founded an AR startup addressing indoor positioning challenges. Comfortable across low-level systems, storage, and cloud infrastructure, he combines practical production experience with academic rigor. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who seeks performance and correctness at scale, often choosing Rust to push both.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Tsukuba
Github Skills (26)
rust-lang10
clippy10
lang10
lint10
linter10
rust10
cli-tools9
obfuscator8
java7
elf7
fault-tolerance7
kotlin7
reliability6
database6
nodejs6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
laplaciancpp/AtCoder-ACs
Feb 2019 - Mar 2022
Contributions:37 commits, 36 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
OSSSLab/upptime
Oct 2024 - Apr 2025
Contributions:486 pushes, 2 branches, 1 comment in 5 months
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