Aki Sasaki

Mirror Fugue LLC

2022.11 - current: Owner

2021.03 - 2023.01: Senior Staff Engineer

2016.02 - 2021.03: Staff Release Engineer

Helped rebuild the release engineering team post-layoffs
Drove Agile adoption (scrum master) to focus a hybrid team
Cross-team communication and coordination with the ops, Taskcluster, security, and Release Engineering teams
Designed and wrote scriptworker, the Taskcluster worker for security-sensitive tasks
Co-designed and wrote Chain of Trust to secure the release process and unblock release automation in Taskcluster
Started the push to port Python 2 synchronous code to Python 3 async

2015.03 - 2016.02: Co-founder

2014.08 - 2015.02: Senior Release Engineer

Blackduck and antivirus code scan automation; helped HWX go public with Blackduck scans
Added ansible support for various platforms
Windows Azure and AWS administration

2011.07 - 2014.07: Distinguished Release Engineer

2008.11 - 2011.06: Senior Release Engineer

Sole build/release engineer for Fennec (Firefox Mobile) through a number of 1.0's; mobile releases now sim-ship with Firefox desktop
Lead build/release engineer for B2G (Firefox OS); part of the Firefox desktop team
Helped design, write, maintain RelEng team automation+infra: up to 11k+ pushes per month, 100k+ build/test jobs per day
Wrote, maintained, and drove mozharness, a python scripting harness with full logging + configuration
Rewrote our legacy hg -> git vcs-sync process to be configurable + maintainable
Helped design Taskcluster (next-gen CI system).
Merge day automation for our rapid release trains

2008.06 - 2008.10: Systems Engineer

Build/release engineer for Studio (java IDE), and Jaxer (AJAX server)
Multiplatform system administration: Windows, OS X, RedHat, CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, Solaris

2005.05 - 2008.06: Senior Build/Release Engineer

Maintained/extended legacy cross-platform build system; designed/wrote/debugged a highly configurable, portable, and easily maintainable system to replace it
Automated final release packaging and update manifest creation CVS -> svn source repository migration: source, documentation, build system, tools.
Set up VMWare ESX servers and virtualized build and application servers
Multiplatform system administration: Win32, Win64, OS X, Fedora, Redhat, CentOS, Solaris, HPUX, AIX

2003.10 - 2005.05: Senior Build/Release Engineer

Rewrote and maintained build process and scripts for www.macromedia.com
Wrote CGIs for QA to perform bounces/bootstraps and push new files to test environments
Installed bonsai/tinderbox for cvs repository queries and build log access. Started nightly builds and helped integrate the builds with automated Silk tests
Wrote new tools for updating builds incrementally. Modified the build to allow for depend builds
Wrote proposals for improved development/QA workflow. Implemented release branch process rather than manual tag/push process

2001.02 - 2003.07: Build/Release Engineer

For the first year, I was the sole build engineer for the HP-UX port of Netscape 6, and assisted with other flavors of unix
I became part of the main build team and supported Windows, MacOS 9, MacOS X, and Linux builds of Mozilla and Netscape, across several concurrent branches
Sole build engineer for a calendar project that was in disarray. Automated builds and set up tinderbox
Migrated the microbrowser source repository from Visual SourceSafe to CVS
Migrated the microbrowser bug tracking system from a homegrown system to Bugzilla
System administration: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Mac OS 9, HP-UX, AIX, Digital Unix, Irix

2000.04 - 2001.02: Unix Administrator/Build Engineer

1996.11 - 2000.04: Computer Operator -> Solaris Administrator II

Administered over 100 Sun servers and workstations globally, though during y2k remediation this number was much higher
Migrated over half a terabyte from our legacy HSM archiver to Legato NetWorker HSM

1996.05: Bachelor of Arts

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