Hiroshi “Nahi” Nakamura is a prominent figure in the Ruby programming community and serves as a Site Reliability Engineer and Software Engineer at Treasure Data. With over 25 years of experience in software development, Nahi has contributed significantly to Ruby through various projects and libraries, including his early work on a logger library that evolved into part of Ruby's Standard Library. His journey began with a fascination for programming languages like Perl and Common Lisp, which encouraged him to enhance their functionalities. Nahi emphasizes the importance of participating in open source communities, as this has been instrumental in shaping his career and influencing his professional work. He advocates for the integration of open source practices in enterprise IT to address the unpredictability of business needs and believes that open source contributions can significantly benefit the corporate sector. Despite not contributing to Ruby recently, Nahi remains influential in guiding the expansion and maintenance of its ecosystem, and he continues to encourage new developers to engage with open communities to foster growth and innovation.