Yu Nishimura
Engineer at Build AI
Minato, Japan
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolYu Nishimura is an engineer with 11 years of software experience who blends full-stack web development, data backend work, and cloud-native infrastructure across startups and large tech firms. Educated in engineering at Nagoya University and computer science at UBC, he has shipped features and integrations at Amplitude and Yelp, contributed to backend systems at Microsoft, and now builds at Build AI. He’s comfortable across Python, TypeScript, React, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes and Terraform, and has hands-on experience designing ingestion/export pipelines and scaling distributed services. Past internships show a consistent focus on integrations, automation, and deployment—ranging from real-time analytics connectors to CI/CD with ArgoCD and GitHub Actions. Based in Minato, Tokyo, he’s also a self-described “golf hacker,” hinting at a methodical, iterative approach to both code and hobby pursuits.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 93%, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 93% at The University of British ColumbiaBachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Physical Engineering, 4.20 / 4.30, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Physical Engineering, 4.20 / 4.30 at Nagoya University
Github Skills (2)
jekyll-theme3
jekyll3
Github contributions (5)
wikipedia-kaido/wikipedia-kaido.github.io
Oct 2016 - Dec 2018
Contributions:131 pushes in 2 years 2 months
jekyll-blogjekylljekyll-thememinutes
codeforsetagaya/codeforsetagaya.github.io
Jan 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:61 pushes, 5 comments, 5 issues in 2 months
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