Roger Shimizu
Camera PM at Debian
San Diego, California, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolRoger Shimizu is a seasoned systems-focused software engineer and Camera PM based in San Diego with 13 years of experience building and managing Linux- and Win32-based applications for embedded and server environments. He combines deep C/C++ firmware and application development (including codec boards and MicroBlaze firmware) with proven Linux administration and automation skills, backed by long-held RHCE and CCNA certifications. As a Debian Developer and former Debian maintainer he contributes to packaging and build automation—most notably improving Debian packaging and cross-release builds for the widely used shadowsocks-libev project. His background spans hands-on product engineering at Sony, OEM project management at ArcSoft, and current camera product leadership at Thundersoft, giving him a rare blend of low-level systems expertise and customer-facing delivery. Colleagues rely on him for reliable build systems, dependency integration (libsodium, kcptun, etc.), and practical performance tuning across constrained embedded platforms and enterprise Linux servers. He brings a pragmatic, operations-minded approach to software development that reduces friction between engineering and production.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Sciense and Engineering, BS, Computer Sciense and Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Github Skills (14)
dependency-management10
debian-packaging10
sh10
script10
shell10
scripting10
build-automation10
ubuntu9
git9
automated-tests8
c117
c177
socks7
shadow7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
shadowsocks/shadowsocks-libev
May 2016 - Dec 2017
Bug-fix-only libev port of shadowsocks. Future development moved to shadowsocks-rust
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:64 commits, 66 PRs, 258 comments in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Roger primarily focused on enhancing the build and deployment process for the shadowsocks-libev project. Their contributions included creating and refining Debian package build scripts for various Ubuntu versions (Trusty, Xenial, and others), automating dependency management, and adapting build configurations for different environments. Furthermore, they added support for building dependencies and integrating libraries like libsodium, libbloom, simple-obfs, and kcptun into the build system. Their work streamlined the build process and improved compatibility across different Debian and Ubuntu releases.
fixrustshadowsocks-rustlibevshadowsocks
rogers0/adjtimex
Nov 2015 - Jul 2018
Contributions:40 commits, 14 pushes, 12 branches in 2 years 8 months
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