Summary
Akira Kozakai is a Senior Software Engineer based in Seattle with 16 years of experience building games, web services, and mobile apps that prioritize user delight and real-world impact. He has deep roots in game programming across consoles and mobile, having contributed to engine client/server code, led teams of up to 20 engineers, and showcased prototypes at the Tokyo Game Show. More recently he has modernized web frontends, backends, and CI/CD pipelines, prototyped AR apps with hardware partners, and optimized live-streaming backends to handle 40x concurrency surges. Comfortable across full stacks and platforms, he blends systems-level engineering from his console game days with pragmatic product shipping for mobile and web. Currently studying ESL in San Francisco while working at Dentsu Innovation Studio, he pairs global collaboration skills with a knack for turning playful ideas into robust production systems.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
ESL, ESL at City College of San Francisco
Game Programming, Game Programming at Vantan Game Academy
Japanese, English