# Arda Akman > Eng @ Delve Location: Berkeley, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/ardaakman Hey, I am Arda. I try working at cool places building cool things. Currently hiring cool people. I also enjoy finance, history, and a wide variety of sports. ## Work Experience ### Founding Engineer @ Delve (YC W24) Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Bölgesi Working on anything engineering. ### University Fellow @ Unusual Ventures Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 ### Software Engineer @ Sigma Computing Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States Part of the Data Governance and Admin/API teams. Working on our public api (express), audit log integrations (dbt, snowflake), and leading development for the encryption micro-service (golang, grpc, typescript). Also helping with the authentication suite including SAML and Oauth. ### Cofounder @ ObviousAI Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Беркли, CA Built something cool for a while, tried to learn more about new technologies. Check useobvious.ai. ### Member @ AI Entrepreneurs at Berkeley Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Berkeley, California, United States Member of the 2023 Fall Cohort. Won the Unusual Ventures pitch competition, earning a place in the next batch. ### Undergraduate Teaching Assistant @ UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS) Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Berkeley, California, United States Teaching assistant for the class, CS61C- Great Ideas in Computer Architecture, a class of 500+ students for Summer 2022 and Fall 2022. Topics include binary numbers, floating point, C programming, assembly language (RISC-V), datapaths and pipelining, caches, and OS/Virtual Memory concepts. - Creating lesson materials, teaching discussion sections, and conducting review sections for students. Providing remote and in-person office hours. - Heading tutoring logistics for the class, helping students who need extra support to thrive. - Creating necessary class material like projects, discussion worksheets, and debugging videos. Conducting grading for the class's material. ### Undergraduate Student Researcher @ ADEPT Lab @ UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS) Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Berkeley, California, United States Working at the SLICE lab under the Hammer (Highly Agile Masks Made Effortlessly from RTL). - Working on providing workflows for automation and testing of the project. ### CS61B Academic Intern @ UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS) Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 ### Software Engineer Intern @ Sigma Computing Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area Spearheaded the enhancements of the Lineage feature, which enables customers to intuitively explore data relationships within companies core product. Implemented the feature using GraphQL, React, and Typescript, collaborating closely with the design team. Managed beta tests with volunteer customers, made iterative improvements and observed over 1,000+ user interactions within the first few weeks of a limited rollout. ### Cofounder @ Owlo Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Беркли, CA ### Software Engineer Intern @ Zendesk Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States Part of the product accessibility team, creating accessible software tools. Building a full-stack application that ensures the company's products are compliant with accessibility standards. - Using technologies such as Cypress, Puppeteer, and more AI-based solutions such as Evinced for accessibility audits, as well as AWS for hosting the container the tool runs in. Developing mostly on javascript and typescript, using react.js and node.js for the full application. - Setting up automation tools and an accessible GUI to use these tools for the company's main products. - Building company tools such as slack bots to automate simple processes, using the Slack API and Bolt. ### Data Engineer Intern @ Changing Room Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 Data Engineer Intern, working on creating pipelines for scrapping, cleaning, and scoring data collected from clothing company websites. - Building efficient web scrappers to scrape product information from websites. - Building a pipeline for efficient sustainability scoring. - Working on shifting the company's web scrapper infrastructure to Docker on AWS. ### Staff/SWE @ Pioneers in Engineering Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Berkeley, California, United States Organization that holds a robotics competition for underrepresented high schools in STEM. Working on the simulator app, which is an interactive simulator where you can test multiple robot movements using Python. Development is done in javascript ### VP of Industry @ MDB Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Berkeley, California, United States Vice President of Industry of the club, which is targeted towards students who are interested in software engineering and mobile application development. • In charge of arranging information sessions, alumni talks and maintaining the referral network. • In charge of the react native training program for old members. • In charge of holding mock interviews, following technical interview formats. • Created multiple mini-applications as a part of the Spring 2021 training program, including iMBD, a film review app, and MDSocial, a social media app for MDB members. ### Research Member @ Data Science Discovery Program Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Berkeley, California, United States Member of a team composed of historians and data scientists at Berkeley working on the mapping of Greek residents in Istanbul from 1821 to 1932. The aim of this project is to use the data in hand to map these people's lives on a map of Istanbul. • Uses data from old Census information from 19th century Ottoman Empire records. • Performs data cleaning and exploratory data analysis to find patterns. • Builds notebooks that analyzes relationships in the data and uploads the data to FactGrid. ### Associate Mentor @ Computer Science Mentors Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 Voluntarily mentoring for CS 61A, the introductory class to Computer Science in UC Berkeley. Worked as a junior mentor for Spring 2021, and now working as an associate mentor in Fall 2021. ### Data Science Intern @ Getir Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Istanbul, Turkey Was part of the Data Analyst team as an intern at Getir. • Focused primarily on NLP and the correct classification of Getir’s Turkish comments. • Used pre-trained models like BERT, Fasttext and various NLP libraries. • Improved the accuracy of the current model from 90% to 95% using said models. • Performed exploratory data analysis on more than 300,000 in-app and web-crawled comments. ### Intern at Netrmarble, Operations Divison @ Netmarb Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Istanbul, Turkey Coordinated with members of the operations team to launch the company's lead computer game in a mobile form. • Did research on different alternatives for cloud and mobile gaming. • Tested these different alternatives, which ranged from Paperspace to Parsec. • Helped solve the issues of playing the game on mobile, such as input lag. ## Education ### Bachelor of Engineering - BE in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of California, Berkeley ### Ogrenci in Ogrenci Üsküdar Amerikan Lisesi / Üsküdar American Academy ### Yale Young Global Scholars Program in Applied Sciences and Engineering Yale University ### Summer Program in Engineering Innovation Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/arda-akman --- Source: https://flows.cv/ardaakman JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/ardaakman/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05