Chiko Shimizu
Developer Relation Engineer
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolChiko Shimizu is a Developer Relation Engineer at Google with 12 years of experience connecting engineers to products and platforms, based in Tokyo. His background blends hands-on Android development—contributing to Jetpack Compose samples with a focus on TV app UIs and focus/layout improvements—with developer advocacy, technical consulting, and localization work at Mozilla Japan. He moves fluidly between code, documentation, and public speaking, having shipped sample apps and guided developer communities through product integration. A Keio University computer science master's graduate, he combines academic research roots with practical industry impact across developer relations and platform engineering. Notably, his open-source commits to the official compose-samples repository show a practical focus on device-specific UX challenges that improve real-world developer experiences.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Keio University
English, Japanese
Github Skills (6)
kotlin10
uid10
jetpack-compose10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
android10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
android/compose-samples
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
Official Jetpack Compose samples.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:18 reviews, 31 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Chiko's commits primarily involve the creation and modification of files related to the "tv" module of the "compose-samples" repository, specifically focused on building a TV application. They added a new module for TV app support, implemented the discovery screen, library screen, podcast details screen and player screen, as well as updating the UI. The user also addressed layout and focus-related issues to improve the user experience.
jetpack-composeandroid
chikoski/rust-handson
Oct 2016 - Dec 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 78 commits, 9 PRs in 6 years 3 months
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