Shozo Hatta
Tech Blog Editor, Technical Writer, Translator, Engineer
Yokohama, Japan
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Top SchoolShozo Hatta is a multifaceted engineer, technical writer and editor based in Yokohama with 12+ years delivering localization, web and developer-facing projects. As co-editor-in-chief of TechRacho and a longtime contributor to Ruby on Rails and its Japanese guides, he blends hands-on backend development (Ruby, Go, VM work) with clear, production-grade documentation. He specialises in AI context/prompt engineering, advanced regular expressions and scripting across Ruby, Python, Bash and JavaScript, and has practical experience in localization engineering, DTP and QA using tools like TRADOS. Shozo has led multilingual localization programs for clients such as Microsoft and Yamaha, coordinating vendors, translation memories and tooling while building small automation utilities. His background in medieval music and deep bilingual subject-matter review gives him an unusual mix of editorial sensitivity and technical rigor.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Liberal Arts, Medieval Western Music, Bachelor of Liberal Arts, Medieval Western Music at International Christian University
Japanese, Chinese
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Github Skills (33)
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ruby-rails10
programming-language10
pdf-document10
testing10
rails10
virtual-machine10
ruby10
j10
go10
markdown-it10
language-design10
documents10
ruby-on-rails10
data-structure9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
yasslab/railsguides.jp
Sep 2014 - Jan 2023
📕 Ruby on Railsガイドの公開リポジトリです。1600ページ超えの大型リファレンスとなっています。
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:61 reviews, 432 commits, 682 PRs in 8 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Shozo's contributions primarily revolve around updating and maintaining the documentation for the Ruby on Rails Guides. Their commits involve updating the layout, welcome messages, and table of contents within the guides to reflect the latest versions of Rails, specifically 6.0, 6.1, and 7.0. The user is focused on synchronizing the English language documentation with the specified Rails tag versions. This includes updating the layout, and overall structure of the documentation to match the most recent guides.
ruby-on-railsrailsjapaneserubyruby-on
goby-lang/goby
May 2017 - Oct 2020
Goby - Yet another programming language written in Go
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 375 commits, 208 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Shozo primarily contributed to the development of the Goby programming language's core features. Their commits focused on improving the readability and functionality of the virtual machine (VM) code. They made changes to the implementation of methods for core data types, and refactored the methods definitions for better readability. The user also added a new method.
golangbytecodecompileryet-anotherprogramming-language
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