I'm Takao Shibamoto, a software engineer. Most of my work has been on the parts of an AI product that don't get much press — the pipelines that move data around, the control planes that keep services running, the data layers that have to keep working when volume triples overnight. That tends to be the bottleneck when enterprises try to adopt AI, and it's where I've spent most of the last seven years.
Currently at Microsoft, building large-scale distributed control-plane infrastructure for enterprise AI products. Before that: Amazon on last-mile delivery, Everlywell on at-home lab testing through the pandemic, and PayPal as an intern during college on corporate firewall automation.
I work mostly on distributed systems and data infrastructure, but I've shipped plenty outside that lane too — full-stack web apps, computer-vision projects, automation tools, and a handful of hackathon prototypes. If the problem is interesting I'll figure out the stack.
Outside work, I enjoy traveling, music, and following the markets.