Summary
Takeshi Yoneda is a software engineer with nine years of experience specializing in low-level systems, networking, and WebAssembly, currently working on networking infrastructure at Netflix. He founded and led the Envoy AI Gateway project and is a core maintainer of Envoy Proxy, driving extensibility features like Dynamic Modules used across the ecosystem. Takeshi also created wazero, a zero-dependency WebAssembly runtime with the first JIT compiler in Go that he implemented for AMD64 and AArch64, and has presented his work at conferences such as GopherCon. His background spans C++, Rust, Go, assembly (AArch64, x64), virtualization, and API/AI gateways, blending systems engineering with cloud-native practices. Previously he built ML platform infrastructure and Kubernetes/AWS deployments as a tech lead and contributed to projects like Istio, TinyGo, and Go itself. Based in the Los Angeles area with a strong mathematics academic foundation, he combines formal rigor with pragmatic open-source leadership.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Mathematics, Master of Science - MS Mathematics at The University of Osaka
Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics at University of Tsukuba