Norio Akagi
Software Engineer
California, United States
Summary
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SeniorNorio Akagi is a seasoned software engineer based in California with 13 years of full-stack web development experience and a strong backend focus. He contributes to notable open-source infrastructure—most prominently Apache TinkerPop—where he has improved Gremlin Server/Driver request handling, added serialization enhancements, and modernized core iterator behavior. Norio blends practical production engineering with thoughtful API and error-handling improvements, showing attention to both developer ergonomics and runtime robustness. Comfortable across servers, databases, and integration points, he brings steady, long-term delivery and a preference for improving foundational systems that benefit broad developer ecosystems.
13 years of coding experience
Japanese, English
Stackoverflow
705reputation
115kreached
12answers
19questions
Github Skills (20)
gremlin10
graph-database10
java10
javas10
apache9
apidoc9
api9
data-serialization8
serialization8
testing7
mongodb6
ironio6
jhipster6
php6
ironworker6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
apache/tinkerpop
Dec 2019 - Jul 2022
Apache TinkerPop - a graph computing framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 19 commits, 30 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Norio primarily focused on enhancing the Gremlin Server and Driver components of the TinkerPop project. Their contributions included improvements to request handling, such as incorporating user agent and request ID options, along with adjustments to error handling during client initialization. Additionally, the user added getter methods for key classes like `GraphSONMessageSerializer` and implemented the `AutoCloseable` interface for `MultiIterator`, indicating work on core functionality and serialization aspects. Further work includes the addition of configuration options to existing steps like `HasStep` and `TraversalFilterStep`.
graph-computingtinkerpopgremlin-serverapacheapache-tinkerpop
rdtr/server
Feb 2022 - Aug 2022
MariaDB server is a community developed fork of MySQL server. Started by core members of the original MySQL team, MariaDB actively works with outside developers to deliver the most featureful, stable, and sanely licensed open SQL server in the industry.
Contributions:38 pushes, 6 branches in 5 months
licensedsql-servermysqlsqlmariadb-server
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