Steven Shimizu
Senior Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Shimizu is a Senior Staff Software Engineer in Sunnyvale with a decade of experience translating scientific rigor into high-impact production systems. A PhD-trained researcher turned engineer, he excels at turning vague, high-level goals into detailed technical plans and then shipping them quickly with strong craftsmanship and empathy for users and teammates. At LinkedIn he led major ML infrastructure efforts—migrating feed ranking training from TensorFlow to PyTorch with large efficiency gains, building an internal Model Playground with hundreds of monthly deployments, and standing up MLflow and LLM cost/quality tooling used across the company. His background in experimental and systems work gives him a knack for instrumentation, performance tuning, and reproducible pipelines that scale. Colleagues rely on him both for technical leadership and for mentoring engineers through complex onboarding and design decisions.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, Ph.D. Chemical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUniversity of California, San Diego
English
Github Skills (26)
chartjs-plugin9
spark-ml8
plot7
oraclejet7
jquery7
jet6
markdown6
nodejs5
scala5
spark5
javascript5
rendering4
ember-addon4
charts4
editor4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
shimizust/tyc-server
Oct 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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