Jimmy Shimizu
Backend DevOps Scania at Elefant Studio AB
Eskilstuna, Sweden
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RockstarJimmy Shimizu is a senior Backend/DevOps engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable, cost-effective cloud architectures from Sweden. Currently improving developer experience and breaking monolithic patterns at Scania, he combines hands-on backend work with infrastructure design and AWS-native patterns like ECS, SNS/SQS and Fargate. As a long-time consultant and founder of JISHI AB he helps teams reduce complexity and increase velocity by applying pragmatic IaC, microservices and container strategies. He has repeatedly migrated legacy platforms to cloud-native stacks, notably modernizing e-commerce and connected-car systems for improved scalability and maintainability. An active open-source contributor, he helped evolve the popular node-sonos-http-api into a more robust, modular Node module—demonstrating a knack for practical integrations that simplify automation. Based in Eskilstuna, he balances deep technical execution with architect-level thinking to deliver measurable operational improvements.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (27)
javascript10
http-api10
sonos10
iis10
logging10
nodejs10
timezone10
mysql9
insert9
console9
postgresql9
ssl9
json9
ssl-certificate9
xml-parsing9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jishi/node-sonos-http-api
Mar 2013 - Mar 2022
An HTTP API bridge for Sonos easing automation. Hostable on any node.js capable device, like a raspberry pi or similar.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 10 reviews, 330 commits in 9 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Jimmy primarily contributed to the development of a HTTP API bridge for Sonos devices. The commits show the implementation of new features like support for presets, handling of radio favorites, and the addition of features like repeat and shuffle. The user refactored the code into a node module, including improvements to the API, fixing bugs and making it more robust.
apiraspberry-pisimilarapi-bridgenode-js
jishi/bronos-client
Aug 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:1 release, 29 commits, 1 PR in 1 month
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