Rei Odaira
Research Staff Member at IBM
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRei Odaira is a Research Staff Member at IBM with 11+ years of experience specializing in NoSQL and Big Data performance on IBM POWER, notably optimizing Apache Cassandra with IBM Data Engine for NoSQL (CAPI Flash). He brings deep systems expertise from a Ph.D. in Information Science and Technology and a background in compiler/runtime optimizations, hardware transactional memory, register allocation for mainframes, and JVM tuning for network processors. Rei is an active open-source maintainer—chiefly of CRuby on POWER and lz4-java—and contributes platform-specific improvements and testing to projects like ruby/spec and snappy-java. Based in Austin, he also applies his skills to Spark-based video analytics and cloud infrastructure reliability work, demonstrating an unusual blend of low-level performance engineering and practical cloud/tooling improvements.
11 years of coding experience
University of Tokyo
Stackoverflow
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421reached
1answer
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Github Skills (38)
ibm-cloud10
testing10
aix10
linux10
cloud-infrastructure10
terraform10
java10
ruby10
javas10
terraformer10
native-library10
snappy10
aac10
infrastructure-as-code10
error-handling10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
IBM-Cloud/terraform-provider-ibm
Oct 2019 - Jun 2020
https://registry.terraform.io/providers/IBM-Cloud/ibm/latest/docs
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:17 commits, 20 PRs, 9 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Rei primarily focused on improving the IBM Cloud Terraform provider's reliability and error handling. Their contributions involved fixing error codes for resources such as VPN gateways, IPsec policies, and VPCs to ensure correct behavior when resources do not exist. They also implemented changes to allow deletion of non-existing resources like floating IPs, instances, and subnets. Additionally, the user added new test cases to improve the code coverage.
softlayeribm-cloudprovidersterraform-registrybluemix
ruby/spec
Mar 2016 - Oct 2018
The Ruby Spec Suite aka ruby/spec
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:19 commits, 17 PRs, 4 comments in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Rei's contributions primarily revolve around modifying and adding tests to the Ruby Spec Suite. These changes focus on adapting tests for specific operating systems (particularly AIX) and ensuring their behavior aligns with system-specific nuances. The modifications involve conditional execution, skipping failing tests, and adjusting test logic to account for platform-specific behavior related to file system operations, process limits, and socket options, indicating a focus on testing and platform compatibility. The user also fixed typos in tests and added new tests.
ruby-gemmspecrailsrubyspec
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