Katy Shimizu
Senior Cloud Engineer at Inspire Medical Systems
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolKaty Shimizu is a Senior Cloud Engineer with a decade of experience building and automating resilient Azure-first infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines for both enterprise products and open-source runtimes. Transitioning from a biochemistry and bird-training background, she brings a craftsman’s attention to detail and a knack for translating complex domain knowledge into reliable developer tooling and automation. At Inspire Medical Systems she standardized deployment templates and automated environment provisioning to cut process time by 75%, and at Microsoft she helped design and ship the inter-process language SDK and pipeline migrations for Durable Functions. An active contributor to core Azure Functions and WebJobs projects, her work spans runtime features, cross-language return-value handling, and build/installer automation. She pairs hands-on engineering with mentorship and cross-team coordination, often leading rapid research spikes and operational incident response.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Metropolitan State UniversityBachelor's Degree, Chemistry, Bachelor's Degree, Chemistry at Allegheny College
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Github Skills (34)
back-end-development10
net10
azure-webjobs-sdk10
azure-functions10
dotnet10
wix10
cicd10
durable-functions10
netframework10
asp-net10
build-automation10
dotnet-core10
powershell10
csharp10
msbuild9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-functions-durable-extension
Sep 2017 - Jun 2019
Durable Task Framework extension for Azure Functions
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:44 commits, 58 PRs, 33 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Katy's contributions focused on enhancing the Azure Functions Durable Task Extension. They updated the Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs version across multiple project files. Key contributions include adding the `HandlesReturnValue` attribute to the `ActivityTrigger`, and replacing the `Counter` sample with a `Monitor` sample. Further work involved processing out-of-proc orchestrator execution results, including handling async actions.
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Azure/azure-functions-host
Oct 2017 - Jan 2023
The host/runtime that powers Azure Functions
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:101 reviews, 48 commits, 64 PRs in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Katy primarily contributed to the Azure Functions host runtime, enhancing its capabilities for non-C# function return values and improving HTTP binding support. They updated the codebase to accommodate new features in the azure-webjobs-sdk. Significant changes include adding support for ClaimsPrincipal gRPC parsing, which involved updates to protobuf definitions and related build scripts. Additionally, the user addressed configuration issues by adding global HTTP response headers.
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