About

Hisako Shiraishi is a seasoned Site Reliability Engineer at Apple with almost 20 years of experience in the industry. She is a strong advocate of the "DevOps" culture and has a broad and profound knowledge of diverse areas of technology, from the application level down to the operating systems, networking, and signal processing. Her hands-on experience in various technology stacks allows her to keep the "big picture" in mind and design/optimize the system as a whole. Her specialties include SaltStack/Ansible/Chef/Puppet/CFEngine, Python, Bash, Redhat Linux/Ubuntu/XenServer, Apache Hadoop/HDFS/YARN/Spark/Hive/Oozie/Zookeeper/Solr/Flume, Cloudera Manager, Kerberos, Jenkins, Maven, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Backend/frontend programming (PHP/Object Oriented MVC framework/Symfony), Oracle/mongoDB, Cassandra, nodejs, Elasticsearch/Lucene, AWS (EC2/VPC/Route53/SNS/IAM), Java/J2EE/Websphere, jQuery, HTML/CSS, SOAP/REST, Windows application development (C++) with networking, iPhone application development (Objective-C), Digital Signal Processing (C/Motorola 68000 assembly language), and other tools. Previously, she worked at lover.ly as a Lead Operations Engineer, where she architected, designed, and developed infrastructure solutions that were flexible, scalable, and highly available. She also migrated the company from a cloud-based infrastructure to data centers and led and oversaw the process of laying out the foundation from the ground up. At Rakuten, she was a Senior DevOps Engineer, where she was the evangelist of the “DevOps” culture and implemented various tools and standards, including automated provisioning standards/tools using Chef and Python and automated deployment systems using Jenkins and Capistrano. She holds a Master of Engineering degree from the University of Sydney and a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the University of Tokyo. Her tech stack includes SRE, AWS, Ansible, Puppet, Jenkins, DevOps, HDFS, Spark, CI/CD, infra, Python, Kubernetes, Docker, PHP, MongoDB, Cassandra, Hadoop, Elastic Search, Frontend, Backend, Objective-c, test, NodeJS, Javascript, Apache Hive, and Software Engineer.