Yuki Ito
Founder & CEO at Zest Inc.
Chiyoda, Japan
Summary
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SeniorYuki Ito is a founder and CEO with 12 years of hands-on software experience and a 30-year history building impactful systems in Japan, now bringing Zest’s patented scheduling optimization to the US market. Her company’s Zest Automated Scheduler accelerated post‑Fukushima building inspections—officially doubling throughput—and serves clients from Tokyo Gas to home care agencies. A pragmatic technologist and Google Cloud champion, she blends serverless modern architecture with a proprietary algorithm that’s evolving into a data-driven ML model and marketplace for caregivers. She’s an active open-source contributor, improving developer tooling like Neovim Treesitter and vista.vim to enhance language parsing and UX. Having navigated startup accelerators worldwide (including 500 Startups and JETRO programs), she pairs entrepreneurial grit with deep product engineering and real-world deployment experience.
12 years of coding experience
Japanese, English
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Github Skills (8)
neovim10
vim10
fzf10
tree-sitter10
go10
rust10
language-server-protocol7
ctags5
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
liuchengxu/vista.vim
Feb 2020 - Nov 2022
:cactus: Viewer & Finder for LSP symbols and tags
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 9 commits, 11 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Yuki primarily focused on improving the functionality and user experience of the `vista.vim` plugin. Their contributions include bug fixes related to fzf integration, specifically addressing jumping behavior and line number extraction. They also implemented features like making the finder blinkable and optimizing the display of information by switching line number and tag positions. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to preview windows within fzf and removed redundant information.
vimsymbolscactusvim-pluginctags
nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
Nvim Treesitter configurations and abstraction layer
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 3 commits, 6 PRs in 5 days
Contributions summary:Yuki primarily contributed to improving the Go and Rust language support within the Neovim Treesitter configuration. Their work involved adding and refining language-specific keywords, built-in functions, and type definitions. The user extended the functionality by adding directives and keywords within the gomod file, thereby enhancing code highlighting and overall language parsing capabilities within the Neovim environment.
nvim-treesitterluatreesittertree-sittervim
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