Shuzaburo Tobimatsu

Currently working as a software engineer at IBM Japan. Educated in the department of information and computer science at Keio University.

Interests

  • Kubernetes related topics
    • 📝 Currently learning several CNCF projects
  • IaC related topics
    • 💚 Love to manage infrastructures in an immutable manner

Career

IBM Japan Ltd. (2019 - Present)

Working as a full-stack client engineer. My major contributions to the completed projects are following:

  • Proof of concept (PoC) for international data exchange for a major car manufacturer:
    • Evaluated proprietary software for data protection on EKS.
    • Designed the system architecture for the PoC.
    • Managed cloud resources on AWS.
  • System upgrade for a major credit card company using OpenShift:
    • Replaced sections of the existing system with OpenShift-based applications.
    • Designed and developed operational components using the Spring Framework.
      designed the monitoring standard, defined the alerts.
    • Introduced Kustomize as the templating engine for OpenShift.
    • Led a team of three during the end-to-end testing phase.
  • New business Launch for a major car inspection company:
    • Designed the Relational Database schema.
    • Designed and developed an image virus scanning subsystem using Node.js.
    • Managed cloud resources with Terraform on IBM Cloud.
      Resulted in the successful provision of the production environment within one week by leveraging the templated configuration.
  • PoC for a horizontally scalable tech-stack for a major transport company:
    • Designed and developed segments of the system.
      Improved a naive initialisation process, shortening the 99th percentile response time from 100s ms to 10 ms.
    • Conducted performance tests.

The former of PiaDOOR (2013 - 2019)

Worked mainly as a web application engineer, experienced both in back-end development and front-end development.

  • Completely re-designed and re-implemented a paid iOS app (providing learning content) with Objective-C.
  • Developed and improved a web service providing similar content to the app above. Engaged both in front-end. with JavaScript and in back-end with PHP.
  • Developed a rhythm game with Cocos-2dx (C++).