Masato Ikeda
Staff Technical Support Engineer at Broadcom
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolMasato Ikeda is a Staff Technical Support Engineer with 14 years of experience based in Tokyo, specializing in advanced support for virtualization, storage, and enterprise systems at Broadcom and VMware. He has led L1–L3 teams, handled complex customer escalations for vSphere, vSAN and SRM, and contributed to hiring and training initiatives that scale technical capability. A hands-on engineer with a master's in computer science from Waseda University, he also contributes to open-source Ruby projects—improving tools like rails-erd, Gretel, and MongoMapper to support multiple Rails versions and sharded MongoDB use cases. This blend of deep product support, team leadership, and practical OSS development gives him a rare perspective on both operational reliability and developer tooling.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at 早稲田大学 WASEDA University
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Github Skills (23)
ruby-rails10
object-mapping10
testing10
rspec10
configuration-management10
rails10
mongodb-database10
ruby10
orm10
mongodb10
ruby-on-rails10
yaml9
database-design9
html9
activesupport8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
mongomapper/mongomapper
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
A Ruby Object Mapper for Mongo
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 63 commits, 58 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Masato primarily contributed to the core functionality of the MongoMapper library. Their work involved modifying accessor definitions, improving typecasting within array elements, and addressing association issues with the `belongs_to` proxy. They also worked on fixing keyword arguments in validations and resolving compatibility issues related to Rails 7.0 and Ruby 3.1. Furthermore, they introduced sharding functionality by adding shard keys to upsert queries and improving tests for sharded documents.
ruby-object-mappermongomongoidobject-mapperruby
voormedia/rails-erd
Sep 2012 - Feb 2015
Generate Entity-Relationship Diagrams for Rails applications
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 3 PRs, 6 comments in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Masato primarily contributed to the configuration and testing of Rails ERD, a tool for generating entity-relationship diagrams in Rails applications. They implemented and refined the loading of configuration files, allowing users to customize the diagram generation process. Key changes included making the configuration file more flexible by removing the need for colons and supporting multiple Rails versions. The user's work also encompassed adjustments to testing procedures and addressing potential issues, thus improving the reliability and usability of the tool.
diagramsmermaidrails-applicationsrailsentity
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