Yoriyasu Yano
Principal Software Development Engineer at Travelport
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYoriyasu Yano is a Principal Software Development Engineer with 14 years of experience building and scaling backend and DevOps systems, currently contributing to Travelport’s JSON Search API while co-founding IllumiTacit. He excels at early-stage startup execution—previously employee #7 at Gruntwork where he led EKS modules, Gruntwork Pipelines, the Reference Architecture and key Terragrunt enhancements used by hundreds of companies and popular OSS projects. A pragmatic full-stack operator, he has driven 10x throughput improvements in a production digitization platform at Captricity and built GitOps-friendly tooling like Fensak and automation-focused GitHub Apps. Yoriyasu combines hands-on infrastructure engineering, CI/CD design, and testing rigor (notably contributions to high-profile repos like terragrunt and terratest) with a knack for turning prototypes into deployable, production-grade systems. Based in Austin and trained at UC Berkeley, he pairs deep technical craft with product-minded entrepreneurship.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science Cognitive Science, BA Computer Science Cognitive Science at University of California, BerkeleyBronx High School of Science
Japanese, English
Github Skills (43)
git10
ruby-rails10
kubernetes10
docker10
scripting10
testing10
bash10
rails10
cloud-infrastructure10
dockers10
terraform10
cicd10
terraformer10
go10
aws10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
gruntwork-io/pre-commit
Jan 2019 - Mar 2022
A collection of pre-commit hooks used by Gruntwork tools
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:17 releases, 2 reviews, 57 commits in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Yoriyasu primarily contributed to the project by adding and modifying pre-commit hooks. Their work focused on integrating tools like `yapf`, `helmlint`, `gofmt`, `markdown-link-check`, `terraform fmt`, `terragrunt hclfmt` and `check_skip_env` to automate code quality checks and linting processes. The user also improved the functionality of existing hooks.
devopspre-committerragruntprecommit-hookspacker
gruntwork-io/helm-kubernetes-services
Jan 2019 - Sep 2022
Helm charts that can be used to package your applications into production ready deployments for Kubernetes. https://www.gruntwork.io
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:33 releases, 55 reviews, 200 commits in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Yoriyasu primarily contributed to the project by writing and testing Helm chart templates for Kubernetes services. Their work involved creating unit tests, fixing bugs in the templates, and ensuring proper rendering based on configuration options. They implemented tests for various features, including Ingress, Service, and ConfigMap/Secret injection, demonstrating a focus on creating production-ready deployments. Additionally, the user implemented and tested examples, and improved the project's compatibility with different Kubernetes versions and environments.
chartshelmproduction-readyhelm-chartdeployment
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