Taiki Ono
Software Engineer at enechain Corporation
Chiyoda, Japan
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolTaiki Ono is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years’ experience specializing in platform engineering, application platforms, and developer productivity, currently based in Chiyoda, Japan. He has built and operated service meshes and application platforms at scale for companies like Cookpad and Finatext, and contributed to high-profile open-source projects such as Envoy—adding DogStatsD support, tagged metrics, and API/proto work. His background spans backend systems, CI/CD toolchains, and developer-facing tooling, with a track record of moving large monoliths to microservices while preserving reliability and security. Taiki combines practical production experience (including AWS and Bazel integration for GetEnvoy) with hands-on OSS contributions that improve observability and platform ergonomics. An unexpected strength is his cross-disciplinary foundation—holding a humanities degree—which surfaces in clear documentation, thoughtful API design, and attention to developer experience.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Language and Foreign Studies, Bachelor's degree, Language and Foreign Studies at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
English, Japanese, Persian
Github Skills (23)
c-language10
apidoc10
protocol-buffers10
testing10
configuration-management10
statistics10
ruby10
go10
api10
cloud-native10
cprogramming-language10
envoyproxy9
env9
tracer9
convoy9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
envoyproxy/data-plane-api
Dec 2017 - Mar 2018
[READ ONLY MIRROR] Envoy REST/proto API definitions and documentation.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 13 PRs, 29 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Taiki primarily contributed to the Envoy data-plane-api project by adding and modifying protocol buffer definitions for stats, tracing, and bootstrap configurations. They introduced new features related to statistics, such as DogStatsdSink and tagged metrics, and refactored existing configurations by extracting tracing-related definitions. The user also updated documentation to reflect changes in command-line arguments and overall statistics architecture, and fixed a bug in the DogStatsdSink message.
apienvoyprotobufprotodefinitions
envoyproxy/envoy
Dec 2017 - Dec 2018
Cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:14 commits, 19 PRs, 119 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Taiki contributed to the Envoy proxy project by implementing features related to statistics and metrics. They added support for DogStatsD, including tagged metrics, custom prefixes, and integration testing. Further contributions involved fixing typos, refactoring code, and extracting trace protos. Also the user made changes to documentation and the build system.
nanoservicesmore-catsgolangcontainersproxy
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.