Masaki Ikeda
Senior Consultant at Infinite Consulting Co., Ltd.
Chiyoda, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolMasaki Ikeda is a Senior Consultant with 13 years of IT experience, transitioning from mainframe systems engineering to BI, analytics and AI consulting since 2016. He has led and delivered a wide range of projects—including ERP (Oracle EBS), package software, groupware, government R&D and business system development—serving roles from SE and PMO to project manager. Based in Chiyoda, Japan, he combines hands-on backend engineering with client-facing consulting, and has collaborated with teams in the US, UK and Germany. An active open-source contributor, he strengthened test automation and connectivity validation in the notable submariner Kubernetes project and improved block-volume support in the Ceph CSI driver. He also holds a Japanese patent (JP7040788) born from applied R&D, reflecting a practical inventiveness beyond routine delivery. His background in economics from Waseda University informs a business-aware approach to technical solutions.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Economics, Bachelor's degree, Economics at Waseda University
English, Japanese
Github Skills (12)
ceph10
drbd10
e2e-testing10
kubernetes10
go10
csi10
kubernetes-pods10
e2e-test10
storage9
dockers9
filesystem9
docker9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
submariner-io/submariner
Mar 2021 - Apr 2022
Networking component for interconnecting Pods and Services across Kubernetes clusters.
Role in this project:
Backend & Test Automation Engineer
Backend & Test Automation EngineerContributions:56 reviews, 17 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Masaki primarily contributed to enhancing the testing infrastructure and adding new end-to-end (E2E) tests for the Submariner project, specifically focusing on external network connectivity with and without globalnet enabled. They implemented and refactored E2E tests to verify connectivity between external applications and pods within Kubernetes clusters, including testing headless services. The user also addressed issues related to handling multiple egress IPs within the globalnet environment, improving test reliability.
kubernetes-clusternetworking
ceph/ceph-csi
Jul 2018 - Nov 2018
CSI driver for Ceph
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 27 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Masaki primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the Ceph CSI driver. Their contributions include fixing a bug in the Cephfs plugin related to block volume support, adding block device support to the rbd driver, and modifying the rbd node server to create/delete target paths. The user also addressed a PV deletion issue by correcting mount count calculations. Finally, they moved bind mount resolving logic for block devices to a new function.
cephcsi-driverkubernetescsirbd
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