Moto Ishizawa
Software Engineer at Preferred Networks, Inc.
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolMoto Ishizawa is a seasoned software engineer with 16 years of experience building backend and DevOps systems across Tokyo-based companies, currently contributing at Preferred Networks. He has deep hands-on expertise in cloud-native tooling and Kubernetes controllers, notably implementing core resources and GitHub API integrations for the widely used actions-runner-controller project. Moto’s background spans consumer and platform engineering at firms like Yahoo! JAPAN and Kanmu, giving him strong production-hardened instincts for scalability and reliability. Trained in computer networks, he combines low-level systems thinking with practical automation—an engineer who says he’s “just learning the internet” while quietly shaping how CI runners run at scale.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Network, Bachelor of Technology, Computer Network at Chiba Institute of Technology
Github Skills (17)
kubernetes10
github-ci10
docker10
dockers10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
githubaction-workflow10
operator10
api-design9
restful-api9
controller9
api-rest9
rest-api9
apidoc8
api8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
actions/actions-runner-controller
Jan 2020 - Sep 2020
Kubernetes controller for GitHub Actions self-hosted runners
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:14 releases, 126 commits, 57 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Moto primarily focused on building the backend for the Kubernetes controller for GitHub Actions self-hosted runners. Their contributions included implementing core resources like `Runner` and related functionalities. They also worked on integrating the runner with the GitHub API and defining the necessary container configurations. Furthermore, they established the foundational structure for the controller's logic, including aspects of event handling and resource management within the Kubernetes ecosystem.
controllerhostedrunnersoperatorself-hosted-actions
summerwind/containers
Jan 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:28 commits, 7 pushes in 7 months
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