Michael Hashimoto
Senior Software Engineer at Liferay
Cerritos, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Hashimoto is a Senior Software Engineer with 17 years of experience building and improving CI, automation, and backend systems at Liferay, where he progressed from QA to senior engineering roles. He specializes in making test infrastructure more reliable and portable—examples include enhancements to Liferay's Jenkins results parser to extract test metadata, support cloud storage, and adapt to diverse environments. Based in Cerritos, CA, he blends hands-on coding with a deep understanding of test automation and build reporting, helping teams get clearer, faster feedback from CI. Michael holds a BS in Software Development from Western Governors University and brings a pragmatic, quality-first mindset that consistently turns brittle pipelines into maintainable automation. An often-overlooked strength is his long tenure within a single product ecosystem, which gives him rare institutional knowledge and the ability to drive enduring improvements across code, tests, and tooling.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Software Development, Bachelor of Science, Software Development at Western Governors University
Github Skills (9)
javas10
jenkins10
automation10
jenkins-ci10
automations10
java10
cicd10
json9
git8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
liferay/liferay-portal
Feb 2009 - Mar 2023
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:7575 commits, 116 PRs, 6 pushes in 14 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Michael focused on enhancing the Jenkins results parser module within the Liferay Portal project. They implemented features to extract and utilize test task names, durations, and histories within the CI reporting system. Furthermore, the user made several improvements to the automation and testing infrastructure, including adding support for cloud storage and adapting to specific environment setups. These contributions directly improved the quality of build reports, efficiency of Jenkins, and the portability of the project.
michaelhashimoto/liferay-binaries-cache-2020
Sep 2019 - Apr 2025
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
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