Mai Nakagawa
Summary
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RockstarMai Nakagawa is a software engineer based in Tokyo with 11 years of experience building backend systems across startups and global tech firms, currently contributing at Mercari. Her background spans R&D, support, and senior engineering roles at companies including Atlassian, IPsoft, and Teradata’s Think Big Analytics, giving her a strong mix of product-facing and infrastructure expertise. She holds a Master’s in Computer Science from Chiba University and a long history of shipping reliable services from early-career work at Fuji Xerox to marketplace-scale systems. An active open-source contributor, Mai has improved core usability and Google Cloud integrations for the widely used Apache Airflow project, including implementing a CronTriggerTimetable for richer scheduling semantics. Colleagues describe her as detail-oriented and pragmatic, often improving documentation and ergonomics as well as core functionality. She combines research-era curiosity with production-hardened engineering to make complex workflows easier to build and operate.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (11)
apache-airflow10
google-cloud-platform10
workflow-engine10
orchestration10
data-pipeline10
data-pipelines10
python10
gcp10
cron9
documentation9
pytest4
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
apache/airflow
Dec 2021 - Dec 2023
Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 reviews, 4 PRs, 33 comments in 2 years
Contributions summary:Mai contributed to the Apache Airflow project by fixing documentation, adding parameters, and implementing a new timetable feature. They addressed a typo in a docstring for the BigQueryHook and corrected documentation for the PubSubHook and Vertex AI operators. Additionally, the user implemented a CronTriggerTimetable to provide a different cron scheduling behavior. These changes indicate a focus on improving the usability and functionality of the Airflow core and Google Cloud provider integrations.
airflowapache-airflowapachepythonscheduler
mai-nakagawa/nand2tetris
Jan 2022 - Mar 2022
Contributions:45 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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