hsbt (no caps) isn’t a Shopify employee.

He’s one of the most active Japanese Ruby core committer, employed by ANPAD, and also part time contractor for Ruby Central, and one of the most active committers to rubygems/bundler.

BTW, ANPAD inc is a construction company, the site is in japanese but the opening movie alone gives a good idea of the context they operate in:

https://andpad.co.jp/

It's funny how far removed it is to all of this drama.