Ryo Kawamata
Mito-Hitachi Metropolitan Area Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolRyo Kawamata is a Japanese software engineer with nine years of experience, currently focused on front-end development and a strong affinity for TypeScript and Vue.js. He has shipped production features at startups and established companies including LAPRAS and Misoca, and contributes to prominent open-source projects like Gatsby and Raycast where he implemented TypeScript migrations and API-integrated extensions. A former firefighter, he brings discipline and calm decision-making from five years of public service into fast-paced engineering environments. Ryo’s work spans full-stack tasks—converting legacy JavaScript to TypeScript, fixing rendering issues, and building integrations with third-party APIs—demonstrating practical engineering breadth. He documents his career and technical writing across GitHub, Zenn, and a personal résumé site, reflecting a habit of clear knowledge sharing. Based in the Mito-Hitachi area, he combines product-minded front-end craftsmanship with an openness to cross-cutting infrastructure and API work.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
情報ビジネス, 情報ビジネス at 茨城県立水戸商業高等学校経営, Management Science, 経営, Management Science at 立命館大学
Github Skills (23)
apim10
javascript10
typescript10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
gatsby10
api9
nodejs9
front-end-development8
fileio8
webapp8
file-operations8
filesystem8
image-processing8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
raycast/extensions
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
Everything you need to extend Raycast.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 5 commits, 9 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Ryo primarily contributed to the development of new extensions within the Raycast ecosystem, focusing on integrating third-party APIs and user interfaces. The commits demonstrate the creation of features such as searching functionality via the esa API, image compression and resizing via TinyPNG, and a card creation extension for Mochi. These contributions involved implementing frontend components using React and TypeScript, as well as interacting with external APIs.
everythingwindowsraycastlinuxneed
gatsbyjs/gatsby
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
The best React-based framework with performance, scalability and security built in.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 20 PRs, 11 comments in 29 days
Contributions summary:Ryo primarily focused on converting existing JavaScript files to TypeScript, specifically within the Gatsby framework. The contributions involved converting utility functions, worker modules, and configuration files. Additionally, the user fixed rendering errors in showcase and starter pages and updated dependencies. This work demonstrates a solid understanding of the Gatsby framework and the transition to TypeScript.
gatsbyreactweb-appfastestcompiler
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