Toru is a machine learning platform engineer at
Preferred Networks in Japan. He is the creator and lead developer of
youki, an OCI Runtime in Rust, and a maintainer of the OCI Runtime Specification. Additionally, he serves as a reviewer for runwasi and is involved in developing a world that utilizes containers and Wasm. Additionally, he is a member of the Kubernetes org and is especially interested in developing the Kubernetes scheduler. Since 2023 Fall, he has been active as a CNCF Ambassador.
In recognition of his OSS activities, he has been awarded the Google Open Source Peer Bonus twice.
He is also an organizer of
Cloud Native Community Japan, the Japanese branch of CNCF, as part of its activities in Japan.