Ryosuke Nakayama
Senior Support Engineer at GitHub
Chiyoda, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolRyosuke Nakayama is a Senior Support Engineer at GitHub with 10 years of experience in software engineering and enterprise support, based in Chiyoda, Japan. He brings a strong backend and DevOps background from his time contributing to the open-source Screwdriver CD project, where he implemented security-focused features like a crumb generator and improved webhook and pipeline integration. His career spans Yahoo! JAPAN and progressive support roles at GitHub, combining hands-on debugging, API security, and build-process reliability. With an MEng in Computer Software Engineering, he blends academic rigor with practical solutions that reduce operational friction for developer platforms. Notably, he focuses on making CI/CD and webhook flows both secure and developer-friendly—an often overlooked but critical part of platform resilience.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Software Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Software Engineering at Kanagawa Institute of Technology
Github Skills (11)
javascript10
api10
continuous-delivery10
continuous-integration10
cicd10
webhooks10
kubernetes-pods9
hapi9
kubernetes9
docker8
dockers8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
screwdriver-cd/screwdriver
Aug 2016 - Jul 2019
An open source build platform designed for continuous delivery.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:28 commits, 28 PRs, 17 pushes in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Ryosuke primarily focused on implementing and integrating a "crumb generator" feature, a security measure, into the build platform's API. They configured the crumb functionality, ensuring it could be skipped in webhooks and with JWT-based authentication. Additionally, they made adjustments to the pipeline creation process by storing the repository's ID and addressed a bug related to setting the parent build ID for triggered builds. These contributions suggest a focus on API security, webhook integration, and build process enhancements.
apidevopsjavascriptcontinuousdocker
catto/sd-test
Jul 2017 - Jul 2019
Contributions:1 PR, 26 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 11 months
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