Naoki Iwakami
Co-Founder And Chief Engineer at Isima.io
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNaoki Iwakami is a Co-Founder and Chief Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11+ years of hands-on software engineering and leadership experience, and a career spanning large-scale distributed systems, messaging platforms, and low-level DSP and hardware control. He has repeatedly led product launches from concept to production—designing protocols, data models and high-availability storage—and regularly provides level-3 production troubleshooting and performance tuning for live services. Previously a principal engineer and engineering manager at messaging-focused companies, he introduced a virtual email storage concept and reusable message-processing libraries that shortened delivery cycles and enabled new product lines. His early research work includes co-authoring the TwinVQ audio codec accepted into MPEG standards, signaling a rare blend of algorithmic research and systems engineering. Comfortable with geo-distributed teams, he pairs customer advocacy with pragmatic technical leadership to deliver reliable, scalable communication infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Electronics and Telecommunications, Master of Engineering - MEng, Electronics and Telecommunications at Tohoku University
Github Skills (25)
synthesizer10
async10
mixer10
envelope10
midi10
synth10
executor9
hal9
music9
rust9
embedded9
gpio8
qt8
player7
windows7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
naokiiwakami/analog2.0
Sep 2017 - Dec 2021
Contributions:44 commits, 65 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
envelopemidimixersynthsynthesizer
naokiiwakami/vceg
Jun 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:3 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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