# Akira Suzuki > Software Engineer at Tesla Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/akira ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Tesla Jan 2025 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States Tesla Optimus Simulation ### Software Engineer @ Tesla Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Palo Alto, California, United States ### Software Engineer @ Cepton Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Jose, California, United States - Developed Real Time Perception Algorithms with high throughput LiDAR data - Created Interactive UI Components controlling a 3D Point Cloud Visualizer - Spearheaded a C# .NET SDK project to allow for easier manipulation of company lidars ### Undergraduate Researcher @ Visual Machines Group Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Westwood, California, United States - Published to ECCV 2022: Not Just Streaks: Towards Ground Truth for Single Image Deraining - Published to CVPR 2023: WeatherStream: Light Transport Automation of Single Image Deweathering ### Software Engineer Intern @ Cepton Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Jose, California, United States - Implemented real time ground detection/lane detection using Python/C++ - Improved the 3D rendering software by using TypeScript & WebGL ### Data Science Intern @ ディップ(株) Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 - Researched and implemented an NLP recommender system for Japanese job postings ### Software Engineering/ Data Analyst Intern @ ProGuides Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Santa Monica, CA - Used Python/Selenium to construct test suites on web page inputs, scraped web pages for company research - Implemented A/B testing in order to statistically validate changes to the product website - Developed a UI flow design with an interdisciplinary team to increase sales by more than 10% ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Electrical Engineering with Specialization in Computer Science UCLA ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/akira-suzuki- --- Source: https://flows.cv/akira JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/akira/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31