Kotaro Terada
Chief Technology Officer at The Apache Software Foundation
Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolKotaro Terada is a product and engineering leader with 13 years of experience bridging research and applied software, now serving as Chief Product Officer at Quanmatic and a guest researcher at Waseda University. He holds a Ph.D. in Engineering and specializes in system and algorithm design with a focus on quantum computing software, turning academic advances into product-ready solutions. Previously a software engineer at Yahoo! JAPAN, he blends large-scale production experience with an active open-source role as an Apache NiFi committer, improving stability and Prometheus metrics for a widely used dataflow platform. Kotaro also advises startups and contributes to academia, reflecting a habit of moving between hands-on engineering, product strategy, and research. Known for solving subtle locale- and timezone-dependent bugs in distributed systems, he brings meticulous attention to edge cases that matter in production.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Engineering, Computer Science and Communications Engineering, Doctor of Engineering, Computer Science and Communications Engineering at 早稲田大学 WASEDA University
Japanese, Chinese
Github Skills (7)
apache-nifi10
testing10
logging9
prometheus9
javas8
java8
github8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
apache/nifi
Oct 2018 - Aug 2020
Apache NiFi
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 16 commits, 15 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Kotaro primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the functionality of the Apache NiFi platform. Their contributions included resolving timezone-dependent and locale-dependent test failures, and updating the platform's metrics to support Prometheus. They also added documentation and addressed issues related to load balancing and logging within the system. The changes focused on improving the stability and monitoring capabilities of NiFi.
apache-nifinifijavaapache
kotarot/tribox-contest
Mar 2020 - Jan 2026
tribox Contest is an Online Speed-Solving Competition organized by Tribox Inc.
Contributions:102 pushes, 31 branches in 5 years 10 months
incorganizedsolvingspeed
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