Takahiro Horike is the co-founder and CEO of Serverless Operations, Inc. and an AWS Serverless Hero with 14 years of experience building and operating cloud-native systems from Japan’s Chiyoda. He’s a core maintainer of the Serverless Framework and has hands-on expertise in AWS Step Functions, API Gateway integrations, deployment tracking, and improving CLI error handling to make debugging more transparent. Takahiro’s background spans backend development and DevOps, where he has driven reliability and plugin validation across widely used open-source tooling. He pairs a master’s in electrical engineering with a pragmatic startup mindset, routinely shipping production-ready serverless features and fixes. Less obvious: beyond product leadership he still contributes code-level improvements to popular repos, blending CEO-level strategy with day-to-day engineering.
AWS Step Functions plugin for Serverless Framework ⚡️
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:60 releases, 10 reviews, 321 commits in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Takahiro implemented features for deploying and removing Step Functions, adding the functionality to invoke them and add stages. They are making the code to use API Gateway event configuration. Additionally, they are adding code for supporting different mediatypes.
⚡ Serverless Framework – Effortlessly build apps that auto-scale, incur zero costs when idle, and require minimal maintenance using AWS Lambda and other managed cloud services.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:450 commits, 327 PRs, 259 pushes in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Takahiro primarily contributed to improving the testing and validation of plugin options, enhancing error handling for the Serverless CLI. The user added functionality to include environment and other crucial information in error messages to aid debugging. They also made changes to the deployment tracking system, the installation process, and fixed various bugs across multiple service components.
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Takahiro Horike - Co-founder And CEO at Serverless Operations, Inc