Taka Nishida

Taka Nishida is a seasoned Senior Backend Engineer at GitLab, specializing in the development of the GitLab Agent for Kubernetes. Prior to this role, Taka served as a Senior Production Engineer and Senior Developer at Shopify, where significant contributions included leading the adoption of Kyverno for network policy management and developing advanced monitoring tools. Taka's experience also encompasses a tenure at Nexus FrontierTech as a Software Engineer, focusing on machine learning applications and system scalability, and earlier at Zoono Inc., where Taka enhanced various projects using Ruby on Rails. Taka holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Kwansei Gakuin University.