Neil Okamoto
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorNeil Okamoto is a seasoned engineering leader and Head of Pipeline Engineering in San Francisco with over two decades of experience building production tools for animation, rendering, imaging, and large-scale content pipelines. He has led and scaled engineering teams from first-hire startups to 50+ engineer organizations, shipping MVPs, SaaS products, and complex production systems for studios, live venues, and brand clients. Comfortable in both hands-on DevOps and systems roles, he has improved CI/CD, build automation, and deployment reliability in open-source projects like CIDER’s nREPL tooling and CI pipelines. Notable for bridging R&D and product, Neil has driven collaborations with partners such as Intel and delivered novel products like a browser-based 3D authoring tool with cloud raytraced streaming. He thrives in creative, deadline-driven environments where technical ambition meets operational rigor, and frequently steps into mature organizations to accelerate delivery while maintaining engineering excellence. Trained at MIT in electrical engineering, he combines deep technical roots with pragmatic leadership across animation, VR, and live immersive systems.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (16)
clojure10
cicd10
leiningen10
travis-ci10
devops10
build-automation10
clojure-cli10
project-configuration10
nrepl10
emacs-lisp10
dockers9
docker9
homebrew-cask9
evm9
cider8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
clojure-emacs/cider
Nov 2017 - Feb 2020
The Clojure Interactive Development Environment that Rocks for Emacs
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:18 commits, 13 PRs, 96 comments in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Neil primarily focused on improving the Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline for the project. They addressed TLS-related errors in the Travis CI environment by configuring package dependencies and implementing caching mechanisms. Furthermore, the user implemented more reliable setup scripts for `evm` and `cask` installations within the Travis CI build process. They also added a script to generate a Docker image to mimic the TravisCI environment.
clojureemacscideremacs-lispclojure-development
clojure-emacs/cider-nrepl
Jan 2018 - Mar 2018
A collection of nREPL middleware to enhance Clojure editors with common functionality like definition lookup, code completion, etc.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:23 commits, 13 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Neil primarily contributed to improving the build and test processes of the Clojure-based nREPL middleware project. Their work included fixing Cloverage testing issues, applying code formatting, and adding release tasks and deployment configurations. They also addressed versioning and dependency management, demonstrating an understanding of build automation and project configuration. The user's efforts focused on enhancing the project's build process and maintainability.
clojurecode-completionmiddlewarenreplnrepl-middleware
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