Kiichiro Naka
Architect Engineer Advocate
Chiyoda, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolKiichiro Naka is an architect and engineer advocate based in Chiyoda, Japan, with 14 years of experience building and promoting robust systems-level and database software. Currently at i3Systems, Inc., he blends hands-on engineering with developer advocacy, drawing on a long history of systems and RDBMS work from Turbolinux and SIOS Technology. His open-source contributions include substantive enhancements to sqldef—improving SQLite3 parsing, table/index handling, and idempotent schema management—demonstrating deep familiarity with database internals and tooling. Comfortable across C, C++, Python, shell, and SQL, he moves between low-level systems code and higher-level database engineering with equal fluency. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that balance maintainability and correctness, and he often surfaces subtle parser/generator edge cases before they reach production.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Software Engineering, Software Development, Bachelor of Software Engineering, Software Development at Chuo University
japanese (native)
Github Skills (5)
golang10
better-sqlite310
go10
sqlite10
sql10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sqldef/sqldef
Nov 2022 - Dec 2022
Idempotent schema management for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and more
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 14 commits, 20 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Kiichiro primarily focused on enhancing the SQLite3 database functionality within the sqldef project. They implemented support for new features, including table options and index creation/management, and extended the parser to handle single-quoted identifiers. Their work involved modifying the parser and generator to correctly handle these features, as well as updating tests and example files. The user also removed unused variables and updated the project's dependencies on modernc.org/sqlite.
golangschema-managementmysqlsqlschema-migrations
knaka/markdown-copy
Sep 2015 - Sep 2022
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 1 month
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