Takayuki Shimizukawa
取締役CTO at 株式会社Flying Duck
Chiyoda, Japan
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Top SchoolTakayuki Shimizukawa is an IT Architect with 15+ years designing web and documentation systems and a longstanding focus on Python tooling and developer experience. He is a co-maintainer of the widely used Sphinx documentation generator, contributing technical writing and examples that make complex features accessible to users worldwide. Based in Chiyoda, Japan, he has held senior architecture roles at BePROUD and Flying Duck and previously managed web integration teams and freelance projects. An experienced translator and author, he translated and contributed chapters to multiple prominent Python books for the Japanese market, bridging global technical content to local audiences. He also plays an active role in the Python community as a PyCon JP organizer and association board member, and has sponsored monthly hack-a-thons since 2009. His background in graph theory adds a formal analytical perspective to his pragmatic approach to architecture and documentation.
16 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
学士, 情報工学科, 学士, 情報工学科 at 電気通信大学修士, 情報工学, 修士, 情報工学 at 電気通信大学大学院
English, python
Stackoverflow
297reputation
4kreached
4answers
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Github Skills (10)
restructuredtext10
documentation10
rails-i18n9
ember-i18n9
i18n-js9
docutils6
python-sphinx6
internationalization6
google-apps-script6
python6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
shimizukawa/freia.jp
Jan 2017 - Jun 2026
my blog
Contributions:2 reviews, 11 PRs, 577 pushes in 9 years 6 months
my-blog
shimizukawa/docker-textlint-rst
Aug 2016 - Nov 2019
Contributions:1 release, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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