Yusei Nishiyama
Senior Production Engineer (SRE) at Shopify
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolYusei Nishiyama is a Senior Production Engineer (SRE) with 11 years of experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems, currently focused on improving reliability at Shopify. He blends a strong backend SRE toolkit—Kubernetes, AWS, Kafka, Prometheus, Terraform—with hands-on experience building a multi-tenant “private cloud” at SoundCloud that served hundreds of thousands of requests per second. Earlier in his career he led iOS teams and shipped consumer-facing features and apps, giving him rare cross‑stack fluency from mobile UI to infrastructure. Known for seeing systems holistically, he prioritizes globally optimal solutions that balance developer productivity and operational resilience. Based in Canada, he brings a background in aesthetics and philosophy to engineering, often approaching problems with both technical rigor and a design-minded sensibility.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Aesthetics and Art Theory, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Aesthetics and Art Theory at Doshisha University
Japanese, English
Github Skills (35)
storage10
capacity9
docker9
lvm9
json-simple9
csi9
ceph9
object-mapping8
cloud-native8
etcd8
data-protection8
glusterfs8
kubernetes8
nvme7
csi-driver7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
yuseinishiyama/dotfiles
Jan 2015 - Dec 2024
Contributions:254 pushes, 5 issues in 10 years
yuseinishiyama/yuseinishiyama.com
Mar 2018 - May 2022
Contributions:215 commits, 6 PRs, 94 pushes in 4 years 3 months
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