Current affiliation

• Graduate School of Science and Technology Degree Programs in Systems and Information Engineering Master's Program in Computer Science, University of Tsukuba (2025/04 -, Master's 2nd year)
• WORD magazine editorial staff
• Laboratory for Operating Systems and System Software, University of Tsukuba
• Rust Team
• Rust contributor (Mainly for the compiler and the official linter Clippy, see merged PRs)
• Wild linker maintainer (merged PRs)
• PLAID, Inc. (Platform Engineer, SRE, and versatile utility role)

Past affiliation

• College of Information Science, University of Tsukuba (2022/04 - 2025/03, Bachelor's degree in Information Science)
• School of Comprehensive Studies, University of Tsukuba (2021/04 - 2022/03, 1st term student)
• Kaijo Junior and Senior High School (2015/04 - 2021/03, 125th)
• The Piano Club at the University of Tsukuba
• Google Summer of Code 2025 contributor (Various improvements for the Rust-based high-performance linker Wild at the Rust Foundation, Project page)
• Preferred Networks Inc. Storage Engineer Intern (2 weeks, speeding up an in-house distributed filesystem written in Rust by increasing parallelism, and implementing a custom CSI (Container Storage Interface) driver for the filesystem, Interview)
• Cybozu Labs Youth 14th (Development of a lightweight and fast OCI-compliant container runtime that can emulate RISC-V binaries internally)
• Security Camp Japan 2024 National Conference Operating System Development Seminar (Development of an operating system for RISC-V 64bit with virtio-net driver for network communication over TCP/IP in Rust)
• Cookpad Inc. Part-time SRE engineer (Improvement of GitHub Actions self-hosted runner implementation etc.)
• Co-founder of Nefront Inc. (Development of an intuitive AR-based indoor navigation application, research for fast and stable VPS implementation for AR, backend infrastructure with Google Cloud, implementation of a web console app for intuitive indoor data input, implementation of a front-end app using Unity etc.)
• Contract engineer at AVILEN, Inc. (ML lecture course revision, AI development, backend implementation of an AutoML app etc.)
• Instructor at a robotics school (name undisclosed) (In addition to regular courses, teaching line tracing using PD control, how to build the strandbeest, Two Phase Algorithm implementation and so on to elementary, junior high and high school students)

Skills

• Programming languages
  • Rust, TypeScript, Go, C, C++, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, C#, Kotlin, Dart, Haskell etc...
• Natural languages
  • Japanese (native), English (TOEIC L&R 830), Russian (studied in college, hobby), Latin (hobby), Sinhala (hobby)
• If you are interested in hiring me, please check my LinkedIn profile.

Likes

• Taking photos (mainly using Canon EOS 90D)
• Komeda Coffee
• Coffee (I buy and grind my own beans. I also enjoy visiting various cafés)
• Playing the piano (I played as a child and picked it back up in college)
• Stuffed toys

Favorite artists

• Regallily
• KAF + V.W.P (KAF, RIM, Harusaruhi, Isekaijoucho, and KOKO) + KAIKA
  • Unidentified Girl Observation Department
  • World Electronics and Communications Department
• ZUTOMAYO
  • ZUTOMAYO PREMIUM
• Mao Sasagawa
  • Hikari Center
• Yorushika
  • Atogaki
• All my other favorite tracks are in playlist.lapla.dev (over 6000 tracks)

Activities