Takuro Wada
Engineering Manager at SmartNews
Chiyoda, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolTakuro Wada is an Engineering Manager at SmartNews with 13 years of experience building and scaling web and distributed systems, now leading a 10+ person team focused on product growth and AI-driven UX. He brings deep hands-on expertise in Python, JVM languages, TypeScript, Kubernetes and DevOps, and previously served as Staff Engineer driving authentication, ID federation, and major migrations. Takuro has a track record of shipping user-focused features that measurably increased engagement and acquisition, and of introducing microservices and Kubernetes across organizations. An active open-source contributor, he has improved high-profile projects like swagger-codegen and kustomize, demonstrating both front-end and back-end fluency. He pairs technical leadership with cross-functional product strategy and global team management, and holds a Master’s from The University of Tokyo.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of Tokyo
Japanese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (25)
kubernetes10
typescript10
swagger-codegen10
go10
typescript-types10
kubernetes-pods10
typescripts10
angular10
command-line-interface9
configuration-management9
command-line9
cli9
k8s9
rest-api9
openapi8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
swagger-api/swagger-codegen
May 2016 - Sep 2017
swagger-codegen contains a template-driven engine to generate documentation, API clients and server stubs in different languages by parsing your OpenAPI / Swagger definition.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 17 PRs, 61 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Takuro primarily worked on the TypeScript-Angular2 client, contributing to its functionality and adapting it to new versions. They refactored the code to integrate with new versions. Moreover, the user addressed issues by adding an Optional decorator, fixing npm and import errors, and ensuring the correct handling of 204 responses. Finally, the user added customized encoder to use '+' char in query parameter.
openapi-codegenredocopenapi-specificationswagger-openapiopenapi
kubernetes-sigs/kustomize
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
Customization of kubernetes YAML configurations
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 10 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Takuro primarily contributed to the `kustomize` project by implementing and modifying commands related to managing Kubernetes configurations. Their work focused on adding and refining functionalities for removing annotations and labels, and removing patches within the kustomization file. The commits demonstrate an understanding of the project's core functionality and direct interaction with its underlying code structure.
yamlcuelangkubectlkuberneteskubelet
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