Hayato Shimizu
Co-Founder & CTO at digitalis.io
Elmbridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolHayato Shimizu is a seasoned technologist and founder with over a decade of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, currently serving as Co-Founder & CTO of AxonOps and Co-Founder & CEO of digitalis.io. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Apache Cassandra, Kafka, cloud platforms and Kubernetes with a track record of architecting high-throughput OTT and e-commerce platforms at Sky and scaling professional services at DataStax across EMEA. Comfortable bridging C-level strategy and low-level implementation, he has led engineering teams, presales, and consulting practices while speaking at major industry events. Trained as a mechanical engineer, he brings a systems-thinking approach and early research experience in genetic algorithms and neural networks to production-grade infrastructure problems. Based in Elmbridge, UK, he balances startup life with a musical side—regularly playing guitar and bass alongside his wife—and a multicultural background from Japan to the Netherlands and the UK.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BEng (Hons) Mechanical Engineering with Industrial Automation, BEng (Hons) Mechanical Engineering with Industrial Automation at University of SurreyThe British School in the Netherlands
English, Japanese, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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2kreached
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Github Skills (37)
cassandra-driver10
cassandra-cql9
rancher9
docker9
orchestration8
cassandra-database8
cassandra-cluster8
desktop-application8
container8
kubernetes8
container-management8
cassandra7
cqlsh7
cattle7
stream7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
axonops/installer-files-temp
Dec 2023 - Mar 2024
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
axonops/axonops-installer-packages-downloader
Oct 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:10 pushes in 4 months
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