Noboru Saito
Nagoya, Japan
Summary
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RockstarNoboru Saito is an experienced technology executive and current President & CEO of TDK in Tokyo, bringing over three decades at the company and 11 years of documented experience in senior leadership roles. He combines strategic corporate leadership with hands-on engineering curiosity, demonstrated by contributions to open-source tooling (notably improving the trdsql CLI’s back-end to handle filenames with spaces and JSONL inputs). Known for guiding large organizations through innovation and operational rigor, he maintains a practical developer mindset—comfortable troubleshooting parsers, CSV readers, and edge-case data handling. Fluent in bridging executive strategy and technical detail, he’s a rare leader who still digs into code to improve real-world data tooling.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (6)
json10
go10
sql10
csv9
file-handling9
testing8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
noborus/trdsql
Jan 2018 - Jan 2023
CLI tool that can execute SQL queries on CSV, LTSV, JSON, YAML and TBLN. Can output to various formats.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:67 releases, 502 commits, 471 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Noboru primarily worked on the trdsql back-end, focusing on improving the handling of file names containing spaces and addressing issues with the SQL parser. Their contributions included modifying the `inout.go` file to improve table name parsing, as well as adding and modifying tests to ensure the corrected behavior of the system, for example, creating tests to ensure that files with spaces in their names were properly handled. They also contributed by modifying the CSV reader, including handling cases where a line may not have a value for a given column. Additionally, they added support for the JSONL format.
sql-parsercsvmysqlsql-queriessql
noborus/github-actions-test
Jan 2020 - Feb 2024
test
Contributions:8 releases, 11 PRs, 64 pushes in 4 years 1 month
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