Hidenari Nozaki
Senior Software Engineer at Les Mills International
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolHidenari Nozaki is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of hands-on experience building full-product solutions from service design to production implementation, currently shaping Les Mills+ with event-driven serverless microservices on AWS. A polyglot and functional-programming enthusiast, he moves comfortably between TypeScript/Node.js backends, GraphQL, DynamoDB, and rich front-end work dating back to AngularJS and prototyping with Clojurescript and React. He has led UI and service design efforts at companies from startups to enterprise, and at Soul Machines ran full-stack JavaScript systems on EKS and Postgres. An active open-source contributor, he improved and maintained widely used AngularJS autocomplete directives, focusing on usability, testability and keyboard interaction refinements. Notably, his background spans research and product prototyping—he’s filed a mobile UI patent and built realtime and embedded prototypes using diverse tech from OpenCV to Arduino. Based in Auckland, he combines product-minded engineering with pragmatic craftsmanship to deliver resilient, user-focused systems.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Computer Science, B.A., Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyAssociate’s Degree, Computer Science, Associate’s Degree, Computer Science at Chabot College
English, Japanese
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Github Skills (16)
html10
uid10
javascript10
jasmine10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
angularjs10
jtest10
angularjs-directive9
unit-testing9
css9
autocomplete6
nodejs6
backbonejs6
fileio6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ghiden/angucomplete-alt
Feb 2014 - Jan 2017
Autocomplete Directive for AngularJS. A fork of Daryl Rowland's angucomplete (https://github.com/darylrowland/angucomplete) with some extra features.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:40 releases, 354 commits, 58 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Hidenari primarily worked on enhancing the AngularJS autocomplete directive within the repository. Their contributions involved fixing directory issues, improving code quality with the use of 'use strict' directives, refactoring keyboard shortcuts, and implementing features such as the ability to clear the input field on selection and a custom data format function. The user also added a new example showing how to use the directive.
angularjsautocomplete
darylrowland/angucomplete
Feb 2014 - Mar 2014
AngularJS Autocomplete Directive
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 24 days
Contributions summary:Hidenari primarily focused on enhancing the AngularJS autocomplete directive. Their contributions involved refactoring the code by removing unused controller functions and moving functionality into the link function, improving testability. They also addressed UI-related issues, specifically modifying how the input field reacted to user input and arrow key navigation, fixing bugs related to empty input and key presses. Furthermore, they modified the test suite to validate the changes to the core directive functionality.
angularjsautocomplete
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