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 (13)
music9
linux8
audio8
ietf8
player8
codec8
qt7
windows7
midi7
synth6
quic5
hardware5
hybrid3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
naokiiwakami/analog2.0
Sep 2017 - Dec 2021
Contributions:44 commits, 65 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
naokiiwakami/tr909-clone-firmware
Jan 2022 - Apr 2024
Contributions:15 PRs, 48 pushes, 16 branches in 2 years 3 months
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