// ABOUT ME

Joseph Kim-Suzuki

Support engineer working toward Resiliency at Shopify APAC

Bilingual support engineer based in Hakodate, Japan. I build tools, troubleshoot systems, and document everything — working toward Resiliency at Shopify APAC.

I learn by doing — building, breaking, and improving. SignalDesk is proof of that: a real observability platform built to mirror the work I'm targeting.

Hakodate, Japan Started 2024 English · 日本語 · 한국어 · Français

// MISSION

Resiliency — Live Site Operations & Incident Response, Shopify APAC

Resiliency sits at the intersection of customer support and systems engineering. ClassPass Bugs Squad. SignalDesk. Prometheus, Grafana, Slack alerting. Deliberate reps toward one role. I don't wait for problems to surface — I go looking for them.

Triage and resolve production incidents

Investigate failures fast, minimise merchant impact, restore systems.

Find root cause, not just symptoms

Document every step. Fix the thing that caused the thing.

Stay curious

Never satisfied with "it's working now." Always asking why it broke in the first place.

// CURRENT FOCUS

Deepening Rails and observability knowledge

Building Resiliency-level troubleshooting expertise

Shipping the jks-os portfolio