Richard Ebara
DevOps Architect at Rakuten Mobile, Inc.
Chiyoda, Japan
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Top SchoolRichard Ebara is a DevOps Architect with 12 years' experience blending infrastructure, software engineering, and research-driven Web Science to deliver explainable AI and robust cloud systems. Currently at Rakuten Mobile, he has progressed through solution and requirements architecture into DevOps leadership, applying ontology engineering and Semantic Web technologies to make ML classifiers more comprehensible, maintainable and reusable. His background spans telecom, mobility and cloud—contributions at Alibaba Cloud, telecommunication firms, Toyota and Sony underscore practical production experience across containers, ELK and big-data front-ends. An active open-source contributor, he’s worked on high-profile TypeScript type definitions in the DefinitelyTyped ecosystem, improving developer experience for widely used libraries. Holding a PhD in Computer Science from Tokyo Metropolitan University and interdisciplinary study at SOAS, he brings a rare mix of academic rigor and product-focused delivery rooted in web standards and community contribution.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Environment, Politics and Development, 4.3, Environment, Politics and Development, 4.3 at SOAS University of LondonDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Tokyo Metropolitan University
English, Japanese, Shanghainese
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Github Skills (16)
typescript10
typescript-definitions10
typescripts10
lessc10
type-definition10
typescript-types10
inquirer9
java6
maven6
nodejs6
javascript6
regex6
r6
angular6
storybook6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
Jul 2018 - Apr 2022
The repository for high quality TypeScript type definitions.
Role in this project:
Frontend Developer
Frontend DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 6 commits, 6 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Richard Lea primarily contributed to the type definitions within the `definitelytyped/definitelytyped` repository. Their work focused on improving the type definitions for various libraries and tools, including `less`, `remarkable`, and `inquirer`. The contributions involved defining interfaces, types, and classes to enhance the TypeScript experience within these projects. They also updated the definitions to align with the latest API versions.
typescript-definitionstype-definitionshigh-qualitydtsdefinitions
chigix/rengular
May 2019 - Mar 2020
RDF described Visual Novel-style Game Engine atop Web Components
Contributions:4 PRs, 107 pushes, 3 branches in 10 months
gameweb-componentsvisual-novelranobeatop
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