Takuro Ashie
取締役 at 株式会社クリアコード
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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RockstarTakuro Ashie is a seasoned DevOps and backend engineer with 17 years of experience and currently serves as an executive director at ClearCode Inc. in Tokyo. He specializes in logging, observability, and build automation—contributing heavily to CNCF’s Fluentd ecosystem by hardening core components, improving thread safety, and maintaining Fluentd Docker images and Kubernetes daemonsets. His work spans low-level C fixes for system daemons like collectd, Ruby plugin QA and compatibility updates (including Ruby 3.0), and complex Yocto/OpenEmbedded build configurations for Firefox. Takuro combines hands-on bug fixes and tests with infrastructure-level improvements, ensuring reproducible, multi-architecture builds and safer runtime behavior. He often focuses on the unglamorous but critical plumbing—dependency upgrades, Dockerfile/template maintenance, and build pipelines—that keeps large cloud-native stacks reliable. Based in Tokyo, he brings deep practical knowledge of production logging pipelines and build ecosystems to executive technical leadership.
17 years of coding experience
Github Skills (66)
testing10
c1110
yocto10
ruby10
c1710
gemfile10
build-automation10
dockerfile10
fluentd10
rubygems10
dockers10
firefox10
kubernetes-pods10
kubernetes10
configuration-management10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
fluent/fluentd-kubernetes-daemonset
Mar 2021 - Nov 2022
Fluentd daemonset for Kubernetes and it Docker image
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:61 reviews, 46 commits, 255 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Takuro primarily focused on maintaining and updating the build and deployment configurations for the Fluentd DaemonSet. They addressed issues related to dependencies, upgraded Ruby versions, and updated base images. The user consistently updated the project's Gemfile, incorporating new plugins and ensuring compatibility with different Fluentd versions and targets (e.g. elasticsearch, opensearch, etc.). Their contributions included modifying Dockerfile templates and Ruby-based configuration files, indicating a focus on infrastructure and build automation.
hands-ondaemonsetdocker-imagefluentddocker
OSSystems/meta-browser
Dec 2016 - Apr 2021
OpenEmbedded/Yocto BSP layer for Web Browsers
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 33 commits, 31 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Takuro primarily worked on modifying and updating the build process of Firefox, specifically within the context of an OpenEmbedded/Yocto BSP layer. Their contributions included removing unnecessary dependencies, adding and updating private libraries, and updating Firefox versions to newer ESR releases. The user also contributed to the build process and was involved in adjusting build configurations and dependencies to ensure successful compilation and deployment of the browser.
browsersfirecrackeryocto-bspopenembeddedbsp
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