Building a Japanese passage block for the blog
How I built an interactive, code-block-style component for rendering Japanese passages with furigana, word-level popovers, and sentence translations—and what I’d do differently.
You can call me Ash. 👋🏿
I'm a Staff Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience building scalable platforms. I love working on observability, functional programming, serverless and emerging technologies. Recent obsessions intersect observability, security, and AI.
Most recently, I led auth & identity platform development at Apollo GraphQL
Why fine-grained authorization matters in the age of AI
AI and agents change the game: coarse-grained "can this user call the API?" is no longer enough. Here’s what’s different—and what’s at stake.
Work
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- Hokkaido, Japan
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- Japanese Language Student
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- Apollo GraphQL
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- Staff Software Engineer
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- Apollo GraphQL
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- Senior Software Engineer
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- UKG | Ultimate Software
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- Senior Software Engineer
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- UKG | Ultimate Software
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- Software Engineer
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- UKG | Ultimate Software
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- Software Engineering Intern
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- Florida International University
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- Webmaster, STARS Computing Corps
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