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Tomoki Nomura

Tomoki Nomura

Japan

Author of "GitHub CI/CD実践ガイド (GitHub CI/CD Practical Guide)", with a deep passion for CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code. In Japan, he’s known for his practical and easy-to-follow writings on GitHub Actions and Terraform, which have helped many software engineers level up their skills.

Community Contributions

GitHub Stars community event: “GitHub Stars Program紹介”

I spoke at the online community event “GitHub Stars Program紹介〜コミュニティリーダーとして次のインパクトを生み出そう” on the theme of how to create impact at the industry level as a developer. In a short lightning talk, I shared how long-form content like a single technical book can scale impact—for example, if 10,000 readers each reduce just one minute of waste per day, that adds up to roughly 40,000 hours of engineering time per year—and encouraged developers to think about how their own everyday activities could generate similar leverage for the wider community.

Speaking (conference/usergroups) / 11-11-2025

“GitHub CI/CD実践ガイド”: 10,000+ readers in Japan and IT Engineer Book Award 2025 Top 10

The book “GitHub CI/CD実践ガイド (GitHub CI/CD Practical Guide)” is a Japanese-language introduction to GitHub Actions and sustainable automation for software delivery on GitHub. It has now gone through six print runs and reached more than 10,000 readers in Japan, helping engineers build practical, maintainable workflows on the GitHub platform. The book was also selected as one of the top 10 titles in the Technical Book category of the IT Engineer Book Award 2025 (ITエンジニア本大賞 2025 技術書部門).

Article/Publication / 10-31-2025

“はじめてのIssueOps”: comment-driven operations with GitHub Actions

I gave a talk titled “はじめてのIssueOps – GitHub Actionsで実現するコメント駆動オペレーション” at the large online event “俺たちのGitHub Actions活用術-なんとなくから脱却する選抜グッドプラクティス,” which had around 1,000 registered attendees. In this session, I introduced IssueOps as a practice for triggering arbitrary operations from GitHub comments using only standard GitHub Actions features, and shared concrete patterns for applying it to deployments and Infrastructure as Code workflows. The goal was to help teams move beyond ad-hoc GitHub Actions usage and let developers safely run repeatable operations via issue and pull request comments.

Speaking (conference/usergroups) / 03-11-2025

“GitHub Stars入門ガイド”: introductory article on the GitHub Stars program

I wrote “GitHub Stars入門ガイド,” a Japanese-language introductory article that explains what the GitHub Stars program is, how the selection process works, and what kind of people tend to be selected. The article highlights several Japanese GitHub Stars and my own case, and it also provides prompt examples that readers who are not confident in English can reuse when nominating others through “Nominate a Star.” It aims to raise awareness of the GitHub Stars program in the Japanese developer community and encourage more developers to celebrate and nominate active community contributors.

Blogpost / 02-12-2025

持続可能なソフトウェア開発を支える『GitHub CI/CD実践ガイド』

This is the keynote presentation for an event hosted by Forkwell, titled "GitHub CI/CD Practical Guide ~ Forkwell Library #67." https://forkwell.connpass.com/event/326361/ The presentation covered "Good Practices for GitHub Actions," "How to Be More Sustainable," and "Software Supply Chain Security" for those new to GitHub Actions. FAQs are also provided as a follow-up to the keynote. https://zenn.dev/tmknom/articles/github-cicd-book

Speaking (conference/usergroups) / 09-17-2024

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