Yoriyasu Yano
Principal Software Development Engineer at Travelport
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYoriyasu Yano is a Principal Software Development Engineer with 14 years of experience building and scaling backend and DevOps systems, currently contributing to Travelport’s JSON Search API while co-founding IllumiTacit. He excels at early-stage startup execution—previously employee #7 at Gruntwork where he led EKS modules, Gruntwork Pipelines, the Reference Architecture and key Terragrunt enhancements used by hundreds of companies and popular OSS projects. A pragmatic full-stack operator, he has driven 10x throughput improvements in a production digitization platform at Captricity and built GitOps-friendly tooling like Fensak and automation-focused GitHub Apps. Yoriyasu combines hands-on infrastructure engineering, CI/CD design, and testing rigor (notably contributions to high-profile repos like terragrunt and terratest) with a knack for turning prototypes into deployable, production-grade systems. Based in Austin and trained at UC Berkeley, he pairs deep technical craft with product-minded entrepreneurship.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science Cognitive Science, BA Computer Science Cognitive Science at University of California, BerkeleyBronx High School of Science
Japanese, English
Github Skills (43)
git10
ruby-rails10
kubernetes10
docker10
scripting10
testing10
bash10
rails10
cloud-infrastructure10
dockers10
terraform10
cicd10
terraformer10
go10
aws10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
gruntwork-io/terratest
Oct 2018 - Sep 2022
Terratest is a Go library that makes it easier to write automated tests for your infrastructure code.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:13 releases, 348 reviews, 437 commits in 4 years
Contributions summary:Yoriyasu contributed to the testing infrastructure of the Terratest project by improving parallelism within test calls and refactoring code to use files instead of channels for logging. The changes involved modifications to the test result marker parsing and storage functions. Furthermore, the user implemented the ability to set the log level and added a test case that used a new example.
automated-testsgoterratestdevopstesting
gruntwork-io/pre-commit
Jan 2019 - Mar 2022
A collection of pre-commit hooks used by Gruntwork tools
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:17 releases, 2 reviews, 57 commits in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Yoriyasu primarily contributed to the project by adding and modifying pre-commit hooks. Their work focused on integrating tools like `yapf`, `helmlint`, `gofmt`, `markdown-link-check`, `terraform fmt`, `terragrunt hclfmt` and `check_skip_env` to automate code quality checks and linting processes. The user also improved the functionality of existing hooks.
pre-commit-hookprecommit-hooksdevopsbash
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