Yasuharu Goto
Software Engineer at Merpay, Inc
Chiyoda, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolYasuharu Goto is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable backend systems, currently contributing at Merpay in Tokyo. He previously designed and developed high-scale object storage at Yahoo! JAPAN, bringing deep expertise in distributed systems and reliability. His open-source work on the GoCQL driver for Apache Cassandra highlights practical contributions to lightweight transactions, reconnection logic, and robust error handling for production clusters. Comfortable across backend and database engineering, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a focus on operational resilience. A graduate in Informatics from Hosei University, he blends long-term enterprise experience with active problem-solving on widely used open-source database tooling.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
学士, Informatics, 学士, Informatics at 法政大学
Github Skills (9)
databases10
go10
device-driver10
driver10
cassandra10
nosql10
database10
testing9
concurrency8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
apache/cassandra-gocql-driver
Sep 2014 - Dec 2017
GoCQL Driver for Apache Cassandra®
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:12 commits, 5 PRs, 13 comments in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Yasuharu primarily contributed to the GoCQL driver's core functionality by adding features related to lightweight transactions (CAS operations) for Cassandra. They introduced the `MapScanCAS` function, refactored existing scan logic, and added improved error handling and comments. Further contributions include handling alias types and adding reconnection logic to address potential node downtime issues.
golangdrivernosqlcassandradatabase
matope/dotfiles
Mar 2015 - Feb 2024
Matope's dotfiles
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 47 pushes in 9 years
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