Ryan Nishimoto
Data Engineer
Leander, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Nishimoto is a data engineer with 12 years of software experience, currently building data solutions at Optum after progressing through their Technical Development Program. He holds a BS in Astronomy with a CS minor from UIUC and an MS in Computer Science from UIC, a background that blends scientific rigor with practical software engineering. His work spans cloud-native DevOps (Terraform, Jenkins, Docker) and full-stack development from earlier MEAN-stack projects to production data engineering. Ryan’s research experience—homogenizing Type Ia supernova spectra and developing VR rehab games—reflects an aptitude for applied data pipelines and interactive systems. Based in Leander, Texas, he brings both academic curiosity and enterprise delivery experience to cross-disciplinary problems. Colleagues will find him comfortable translating complex domain needs into reproducible, automated infrastructure and analytics.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of Illinois at ChicagoUniversity of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Nishimotord/Nishimotord.github.io
Sep 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:19 pushes, 4 branches in 5 months
Nishimotord/CS528_P2_Wheel_in_the_Sky
Mar 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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