Masayuki Igawa
Senior Software Maintenance Engineer at Red Hat
Chiyoda, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolMasayuki Igawa is a Senior Software Maintenance Engineer with 17 years of experience specializing in open source cloud computing, particularly OpenStack, and is currently at Red Hat. He combines deep hands-on coding in Python, Java, C and scripting with a strong track record in QA, test-suite development (Tempest) and documentation improvements across high-profile OpenStack projects like Nova, python-novaclient and DevStack. Known for meticulous code and maintenance work—fixing bugs, cleaning unused code, improving docs and ensuring license hygiene—he excels at collaborative, community-driven development and upstream/downstream coordination. A former manager of open source teams and long-time contributor from enterprise and telecommunications backgrounds, he brings both engineering depth and practical product-quality focus. Outside work he’s a husband, father, cyclist and runner, reflecting a disciplined, steady approach to long-term OSS stewardship.
17 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biochemistry, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biochemistry at Saitama University (埼玉大学)
Japanese, English
Github Skills (29)
laravel-nova10
restructuredtext10
back-end-development10
python10
testing10
command-line-interface10
configuration-management10
test-framework10
rs10
openstack-nova10
openstack10
service-design10
command-line10
service-provider10
ova10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/tempest
Mar 2013 - Oct 2022
OpenStack Testing (Tempest) of an existing cloud. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end & QA Engineer
Back-end & QA EngineerContributions:236 commits in 9 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Masayuki primarily contributed to bug fixes and feature implementation within the OpenStack Tempest testing framework. Their work involved fixing typos in shell scripts, such as run_tests.sh. Additionally, the user added and updated scenario tests to cover new features, including instance snapshot and boot functionality, as well as minimum basic scenario testing. The contributions demonstrate a focus on improving the quality and coverage of the Tempest test suite.
openstacktesting
openstack/devstack
Jan 2014 - Oct 2022
System for quickly installing an OpenStack cloud from upstream git for testing and development. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:17 commits in 8 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Masayuki primarily focuses on improving the project's documentation and build processes. They addressed the documentation for configuring the system by correcting command syntax and fixing inaccurate instructions. Additionally, the user streamlined the build by removing unnecessary components from the installation procedure, and introduced features for generating PDF documentation. These commits indicate a focus on improving the usability and maintainability of the OpenStack DevStack project.
openstacktesting
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