James Shimada
Leading high-performing teams to solve complex problems at scale
- Role
- Engineering Manager at PitchBook
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About James Shimada
Trusted technical leader with 10+ years experience leading teams of up to 30+ people and 10 years hands-on software development experience in distributed systems. Envisioned and operationalized large-scale systems serving 16M users, 1.8B requests/hour, driving $2.6B in sales and $570M+ in savings. Co-inventor of 7 patent applications. Proven success building culture of high performance and innovation. Servant leader who develops exceptional teams on a foundation of trust, collaboration, and psychological safety. Demonstrated success attracting and hiring talent as a hiring manager along with over 350 interview loops led as an Amazon Bar Raiser. Track record developing talent and promoting leaders across engineering, program management, and people management, including 12 ICs promoted to senior/staff levels and 3 managers hired/developed. Deep expertise in cloud-native microservices architecture (AWS/Azure), scaled Agile methodologies, and operational excellence.
Experience
Engineering Manager
Mar 2026 — Present · Seattle, WA, US
Education
Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science
Western Washington University
Undergraduate coursework in Computer Science
New York University
Bachelor of Music (B.M.), Music Business
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