Tomoya Kawanishi
Software Engineer
Chiyoda, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolTomoya Kawanishi is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack and infrastructure solutions across startups and product teams in Tokyo. He’s shipped production systems as a founder/CTO and tech lead, working with Go, React, Ruby on Rails and Common Lisp, and has hands-on expertise in DevOps, automation and deployment tooling. Notably, he contributed build and install improvements to the widely used Roswell Common Lisp launcher, streamlining releases and Homebrew support. His background spans advertising networks, admin platforms and cloud infrastructure (Chef/Ansible, AWS), showing an ability to own both application and ops concerns. Tomoya combines product-minded leadership with low-level engineering curiosity, often tackling build systems and developer workflows that reduce friction for teams. Based in Chiyoda, Japan, he maintains an active developer presence via GitHub, a technical blog and social channels.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
京都大学
Japanese, English
Github Skills (8)
automation10
script10
automations10
build-system10
bash10
recipe9
common-lisp9
homebrew8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
roswell/roswell
Jan 2015 - Jun 2015
intended to be a launcher for a major lisp environment that just works.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits, 7 PRs, 13 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Tomoya focused on improving the build and installation process for the project. They updated recipes for building the project, switching from using `master` branch to a `release` branch. The user refactored the build process, replacing some methods and updating the dependencies, which included a direct download and installation of roswell. They also incorporated support for the Homebrew's `--HEAD` option.
roswellquicklisplauncherlisp-interpreterlisp
rudolph-miller/clipper
Feb 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:59 commits, 57 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
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