Nick Shimokochi
Phone: 313-451-1382
Email: nick@shimokochi.com
I’m a technical leader focused on innovation, operational excellence, and delivering impactful results. Combining hands-on development with strategic leadership, I’ve guided teams to improve productivity, quality, and scalability. I actively support team growth, contribute directly to critical projects, and design robust architectures that align technical efforts with organizational goals while fostering collaboration and development.
EXPERIENCE
Engineering Lead
Nebula.io
New York, NY (Remote)
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Lead and mentor a high-performing software development team, where we continually improve sprint efficiency by implementing tailored Agile processes. Contribute 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 - Present
Engineering Manager
Pantheon Systems
San Fransisco, CA (Remote)
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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
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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
Master's in Mathematics
Rochester, MI
2006 - 2009
Middle Tennessee State University
Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics
Murfreesboro, TN
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