Taku Shimizu
DevOps Engineer at Kii, Inc.
Kawasaki, Japan
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Top SchoolTaku Shimizu is a seasoned DevOps Engineer with 13 years in software and over nine years architecting, building, and operating cloud-native solutions at Kii, Inc. He specializes in container orchestration and the HashiCorp stack, routinely applying Kubernetes, Argo CD, Terraform, Nomad, Consul, Docker, and Ansible to deliver scalable, observable platforms on AWS. Taku excels at driving continuous delivery and infrastructure-as-code practices across distributed teams, with a proven ability to introduce industry standards that improve reliability and developer productivity. Comfortable in remote, cross-functional environments, he combines hands-on implementation with mentorship and process improvement. His background in literature and second language acquisition hints at strong communication skills that help bridge technical and non-technical stakeholders. Outside core tooling, he’s known for pragmatic integrations across the Kubernetes ecosystem (Kustomize/Helm) to streamline deployment workflows.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Literature, Second Language Acquisition, Literature, Second Language Acquisition at 中央大学
Chinese, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese
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Github Skills (141)
container-management10
restructuredtext10
sphinx-doc10
python10
high-availability10
prometheus-exporter10
chat10
harbor10
errbot10
monitoring10
markdown10
django10
kustomize10
chatops10
continuous-delivery10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
takuan-osho/takuan-osho
Aug 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:2542 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
takuan-osho/sphinx
Mar 2015 - Jan 2019
Contributions:43 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 10 months
pythondocumentation-buildersphinx-documentationbuildersphinx
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