Tatsuya Oiwa
Staff Engineer - Search at Shopify
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolTatsuya Oiwa is a Staff Engineer specializing in search and distributed systems with 13 years of experience building large-scale indexing and ingestion pipelines across retail and media platforms. At Shopify he led the migration of buyer-facing search from Elasticsearch to an in-house platform and owns architecture and delivery for product discovery spanning storefronts and apps. His background spans Kafka/Beam/Dataflow/Bigtable pipelines, Ruby backends for search and typeahead, and early career work designing self-service search platforms at Rakuten. He's an active backend contributor to open-source projects, having extended a Node.js redis mock and contributed API-key rotation support to the widely used Shopify API Ruby gem. Colleagues know him for turning complex infrastructure into clean APIs and diagrams that connect code to user experience, and outside work he balances engineering with life as a dad, traveler, and budding long-distance runner.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Informatics, Bachelor’s Degree, Informatics at Shizuoka University
Japanese, English
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Github Skills (12)
ruby10
nodejs10
shopify-api10
javascript10
redis10
api-design10
jwt10
testing10
data-set9
datasets9
unit-testing8
openssl8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/shopify-api-ruby
Jun 2022 - Jul 2022
ShopifyAPI is a lightweight gem for accessing the Shopify admin REST and GraphQL web services.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 12 commits, 7 PRs in 13 days
Contributions summary:Tatsuya primarily contributed to the backend of the Shopify API Ruby gem. Their work included adding support for API key rotation by introducing `old_api_secret_key`, which involved modifications to context initialization and JWT validation. They also implemented tests to ensure proper handling of the `old_api_secret_key`. In addition, the user packaged the release 11.0.1, updating the gem's version.
adminrailshotel-bookingpolarisweb-services
faeldt/redis-mock
Jun 2013 - Jul 2013
Node.js redis client mock
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 13 days
Contributions summary:Tatsuya primarily focused on implementing and extending the functionality of a Node.js Redis mock library. Their contributions include adding the `incr` command for string values, which involved changes to the `lib/strings.js`, `lib/redis-mock.js`, and related test files. They also added the `sadd`, `srem`, `smembers`, and `scard` commands related to Redis sets and refactored code to fit the coding style.
redisredis-clientnode-jsjavascriptnodejs
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