Noboru Ota
Vice President And Chief Expert at SAP
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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RockstarNoboru Ota is a seasoned software leader with a decade of experience, currently serving as Vice President and Chief Expert at SAP in Paris. He blends strategic engineering leadership with hands-on backend and database expertise, particularly around data integrity and developer experience. An active open-source contributor, Noboru has improved Org-mode tooling—adding SQLite foreign-key fixes and smarter link completions to the popular org-roam project—reflecting his passion for DIY tinkering and productivity tooling with Emacs. Known for translating nuanced technical problems into pragmatic solutions, he brings a practical, detail-oriented approach to large-scale enterprise systems while maintaining a hacker’s curiosity for personal tooling.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (7)
debug10
sqlite10
database-design10
org-mode10
emacs-lisp10
pim9
completions8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
org-roam/org-roam
Apr 2020 - Feb 2022
Rudimentary Roam replica with Org-mode
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 16 commits, 30 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Noboru contributed to the `org-roam` project by implementing bug fixes and adding new features, primarily focusing on database interactions and enhancing user experience. They addressed issues related to foreign keys in the SQLite database, ensuring data integrity and proper functionality. Furthermore, they enabled completions for both "roam" and "fuzzy" links, improving the user's ability to create and navigate links efficiently within the Org-mode environment. The user also addressed an issue with Org-ID storage related to search options.
replicapkmroamorg-modeemacs
nobiot/org-remark
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
Highlight & annotate text, EWW, Info, and EPUB
Contributions:3 reviews, 349 commits, 33 PRs in 2 years 1 month
highlightnote-takingtext-fileorg-modeannotate
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