Takumi Nishida
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorTakumi Nishida is a senior software engineer focused on infrastructure and DevOps, with eight years of experience building scalable, secure, and reliable cloud-native systems. He currently serves as Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure at Workiva, where he designs and operates infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-based solutions to support high-availability platforms. At Capital One, he led initiatives to achieve 99.99% platform availability, built cross-team AWS EMR bootstrap functionality, expanded Python API test coverage from 70% to 80%, and strengthened security by remediating vulnerabilities and upgrading certificates, while architecting Argo-driven event workflows in EKS to compare EFS and S3 data stores. As a Liatrio consultant, he designed Config-as-Code patterns for PingFederate across multi-region deployments—saving 2+ hours per engineer per week—and led Dojo sessions for 50+ engineers on CI/CD, IaC, monitoring, and containerization. Earlier, he built real-time DevOps dashboards with the ELK stack to measure MTTR and lead time, established Terraform-based IaC patterns, and promoted GitOps practices across teams. Based in San Jose, California, Takumi earned a BS in Computer Science from California State University, Chico, and combines hands-on engineering with mentorship and cross-functional collaboration to deliver robust, auditable infrastructure solutions.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (79)
bootcamp9
artifact9
spring-data8
terraform8
minecraft8
aws8
ignite8
app-services7
metadata7
automation7
azure-app-services7
shieldsio7
terraform-modules7
chain7
api7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
liatrio/DevShops
Jun 2018 - Feb 2020
Application for a grocery/office supplies list at the Chico Liatrio office for day to day needs
Contributions:1 PR, 20 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 8 months
for-officegrocerydaysupplies
tnishida1/x
May 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:33 PRs, 49 pushes, 32 branches in 1 day
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