Satoru Satoh
プリンシパルコンサルタント at Red Hat
Yokohama, Japan
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Top SchoolSatoru Satoh is a seasoned principal consultant and software engineer with 26 years of experience, specializing in Linux kernel, networking, open source localization, and core infrastructure technologies. Based in Yokohama and long-tenured at Red Hat, he blends deep hands-on engineering—authoring and maintaining OSS like python-anyconfig and improving widely used tools such as ansible-lint—with people and project leadership including hiring and enablement. His work on projects like Spacewalk and ansible-lint shows a focus on improving developer workflows, code quality, and extensibility across backend and DevOps domains. Trained in applied physics at Hokkaido University, he brings analytical rigor and a high learning velocity that helps bridge low-level systems expertise with modern development practices.
26 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of applied physics, Engineering Physics/Applied Physics, Master of applied physics, Engineering Physics/Applied Physics at Hokkaido Univ.
English, Japanese
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Github Skills (24)
xml-rpc-client10
python10
apidoc10
ansible-lint10
api10
xmlrpc10
ansible10
ansible-galaxy10
refactoring10
command-line-interface9
pytest9
command-line9
automations8
automation8
json8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/ansible-lint
Jun 2020 - May 2021
ansible-lint checks playbooks for practices and behavior that could potentially be improved and can fix some of the most common ones for you
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 11 commits, 18 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Satoru primarily contributed to the codebase by refactoring and improving the `ansible-lint` tool. Their work included refactoring existing code, adding new functions to validate actions, and correcting documentation for linters, while also making the tool more extensible by allowing configurations for each rule. Additionally, they modified the code to incorporate the packaging of custom rules within the tool. The user's contributions demonstrate a focus on improving code quality, maintainability, and functionality within the `ansible-lint` project.
pre-commit-hooklinterlintimprovedansible-lint
spacewalkproject/spacewalk
May 2009 - Jul 2011
The master repository for the Spacewalk Project.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Satoru contributed to the Spacewalk project by introducing new functionality and expanding existing tools. Their work included adding a feature to specify a profile name within the bootstrap script, enhancing system registration. They also introduced `swapi.py`, a Python script for interacting with Spacewalk/RHN RPC APIs from the command line, and added utility routines and a new module for `spacecmd`.
masterspacewalk
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