YUKI "Piro" Hiroshi
Software Engineer at ClearCode Inc. http://www.clear-code.com/
Tokyo, Japan
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RockstarYUKI "Piro" Hiroshi is a seasoned software engineer based in Tokyo with 19 years of experience building and supporting developer-focused systems. At ClearCode Inc. he combines hands-on development and support engineering, and authors the technical blog System Admin Girl to share practical sysadmin knowledge. An active open-source contributor, he improves developer experience and documentation for projects like the groonga full‑text search engine and enhanced XML tooling for Node.js, often focusing on clarity, testing, and usability. His contributions reveal a knack for turning nuanced implementation details into accessible docs and reliable APIs, reducing onboarding friction for users and contributors. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful refactors, thorough unit tests, and meticulous release and i18n guidance that keep projects maintainable and global-ready.
19 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (21)
javascript10
coffeescript10
technical-writing10
xml10
nodejs10
documentation10
testing9
sphinx9
i18n-js8
ember-i18n8
rails-i18n8
backgrounds6
addon6
c176
firefox6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
groonga/groonga
Jul 2012 - Aug 2018
An embeddable fulltext search engine. Groonga is the successor project to Senna.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:58 commits, 8 PRs, 27 pushes in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:YUKI primarily contributed to the project's documentation, focusing on updating and improving the clarity and accuracy of various documentation sections. Their work included correcting typos, adding descriptions for HTTP commands, providing more meaningful examples for the "table_remove" command, and adding installation steps. The user also updated the documentation for the i18n (internationalization) process, release steps, and news topics, indicating a focus on improving the user and contributor experience.
nginxfulltext-searchfull-text-searchfulltextsearch-engine
oozcitak/xmlbuilder-js
Jul 2012 - Jul 2012
An XML builder for node.js
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:YUKI primarily contributed to the `xmlbuilder-js` project by implementing new features and enhancing existing functionalities. They added a method to import XML builders, along with thorough unit tests for the newly introduced functionality and the `clone()` method. Additionally, the user refactored code for clarity and usability and introduced an alias method for the `importXMLBuilder` method, improving the developer experience and code readability. Finally, the user fixed a typo in the tests, contributing to code quality.
xmlbuildernode-jsxmljavascriptbuilder
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