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Naoki Iwakami

Co-Founder and Chief Engineer at Isima.io

Naoki Iwakami has a diverse work experience spanning over several companies and roles. Naoki started their career in 1992 as a Research Engineer at Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, where they worked on developing speech data compression algorithms. Naoki proposed a new audio codec algorithm called TwinVQ and played a significant role in its product launch project.

In 2001, Naoki joined Openwave Systems Japan as a Senior Software Engineer, where they conducted performance tests, analyzed results, and proposed implementation improvements for distributed server products. Naoki also served as part of the continuous engineering team for the directory server product, providing bug fixes, performance improvements, and customer support.

Naoki then took on the role of Engineering Manager at Openwave Systems Japan in 2003. In this position, they supervised a team of engineers and managed software development projects, delivering customized features for messaging services and overseeing log aggregation product development.

From 2005 to 2011, Naoki worked as a Software Architect at Openwave Systems Japan. Naoki collaborated with the professional service team to design software solutions tailored to customers' requirements. Naoki also introduced the concept and basic design of a virtual email storage server.

In 2011, Naoki joined Openwave Messaging, Inc. as a Principal Software Engineer. Naoki worked with the messaging platform core development team, participating in two major release projects to develop highly scalable and available email server software products. Their responsibilities included data model design, internal protocol design, API designs, technical guidance, and implementation of core parts.

Starting in 2016, Naoki worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Aeris Communications. Naoki collaborated with the Core Network Engineering Team, developing mobile network components and a short messaging server.

Finally, in 2017, Naoki co-founded Isima.io and assumed the role of Co-Founder and Chief Engineer. Further details of their work at Isima.io are not provided in the structured information.

Naoki Iwakami completed their Master of Engineering degree in Electronics and Telecommunications from Tohoku University in the years 1986 to 1992.

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San Francisco, United States

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Isima.io

Isima represents a leap ahead in an industry typically comfortable with incremental change. They are frustrated as consumers and citizens by the slow rate of adoption of AI/ML across industries such as healthcare, education, and finance to better humanity. Their team was at the frontier of changing the way business was done with thesetechnologies at well-known internet companies and top hedge funds before anyone ever used the term ‘big data’ and they would now like to enable every enterprise to take advantage of the promise of these revolutions. Simply put, they will change the status-quo in operating and distributed systems research.


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