Nick Shimokochi
Phone: 313-451-1382
Email: nick@shimokochi.com
Engineering manager who combines hands-on development with technical leadership. Over the past decade, I've built and revitalized engineering teams, designed scalable architectures, and delivered measurable improvements in velocity, quality, and operational efficiency. I lead from the front, contributing directly to critical work while creating the conditions for teams to do their best.
EXPERIENCE
Software Engineering Manager
Citrine Informatics
San Francisco, CA (Remote)
2025-Present
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Lead the systems engineering team in building a materials science platform for capturing and analyzing lab data across experiments, materials, and formulations.
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Drive platform architecture decisions and team execution in a domain where software meets physical science.
2025 - Present
Engineering Lead
Nebula.io
New York, NY (Remote)
2022-2025
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Led and mentored a high-performing software development team, where we continually improved sprint efficiency by implementing tailored Agile processes. Contributed hands-on to critical projects, ensuring timely delivery and optimized team collaboration.
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In a dual DevOps leadership role, re-engineered the CI/CD pipeline, reducing build time by 50%+ and cutting deployment costs by 25%+, resulting in faster release cycles and significant cost savings.
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Architected and led the development of a task execution framework that streamlined platform functionality, increasing feature deployment speed and improving overall system performance.
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Developed and implemented a suite of local development tools that enhanced developer efficiency, reducing onboarding time for new engineers and accelerating feature development.
2022 - 2025
Engineering Manager
Pantheon Systems
San Fransisco, CA (Remote)
2021-2022
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Led a dedicated team responsible for delivering Pantheon’s Autopilot product, increasing product stability and reducing bug reports through proactive leadership and refined development practices.
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Spearheaded team coordination to align execution with key product priorities, driving consistent sprint performance and meeting project deadlines on schedule.​
2021 - 2022
Lead Software Engineer
Altair Engineering
Troy, MI
2014 – 2021
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Led cross-functional engineering teams across multiple high-impact projects, while actively contributing to core development tasks, ensuring project success and enhancing team productivity.
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Architected and deployed robust build and deployment frameworks across multiple products, reducing deployment time and improving system reliability.
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Designed and implemented a distributed task execution framework in Python that became the foundation of Altair Control
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Automated the deployment and configuration of HPC systems (PBS Pro) for both on-premise and cloud environments, reducing setup time and increasing operational efficiency.
2014 - 2021
EDUCATION
Oakland University
Rochester, MI
Applied Mathematics | 2006 – 2011
M.A. earned; PhD coursework completed
2006 - 2009
Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, TN
B.S., Applied Mathematics | 2001 – 2006
2001 - 2005
SKILLS & EXPERTISE
Communication & Leadership
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Excellent communicator & collaborator​
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Highly effective team member, mentor, and leader
Software Engineering
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Strong command of architectural & OOP concepts
Devops & Platform Engineering
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Building & optimizing CI/CD workflows
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Managing deployment infrastructure, IAC
Cloud Based Development
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Experience developing on GCP, AWS, and Azure
Recent Stack Experience
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Python, Flask, KeyCloak, MongoDB, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, AWS, GCP, Linux