# Timothy Akana

> Software Engineer

Location: Walnut Creek, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/timothyakana

Software Engineer

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ DoorDash
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Working on internal tools for Doordash's Experimentation Platform.
- Developing workflows to configure experiments and feature flagging.
- Expanding tools to simulate and test experiment configurations for millions of users.
- Enhanced experiment discoverability, filtering, searching, and emergency rollback & deployment of experiment configurations.

Mainly focused on merchant integrations and inventory management.
- Developed full stack inventory management tools focusing on file translations and ingestion.
- Automated CSV parsing and ingestion services, saving  $100k+ annually  and reducing hiring needs.
- Maintained legacy codebases and executed live service migrations while maintaining service SLOs.

### Frontend Software Engineer @ Swoop Search
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | United States
- Developed scalable reusable components for handling real-time streaming and bulk data processing.
- Implemented window virtualization to reduce the number of DOM elements rendered by over 95%.
- Designed APIs to facilitate  node and python backend data queries with redux state management.
- Reduced UX latency for map-based navigation and search through debouncing and caching strategies.

### Project Manager @ Waymo
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Mountain View
- Redesigned technical tools to modularize quality assurance workflows, increasing  throughput by 50%.
- Built  SQL dashboards for data-driven  product timelines, where no data analysis had existed. 
- Launched and scaled multiple cross-geographical remote teams to outsource high-cost job functions.

### Operations Specialist @ DeepMap, Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Mountain View
- Created a structure and training program to scale an operations team.
- Prototyped map-building tools and advised the engineering team with lists of needed functionality.
- Led live customer facing tech demos for potential strategic partnerships.

### Mapping Operations Associate @ X, the moonshot factory
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Mountain View, CA
- Conducted comprehensive testing of user-facing tools and interfaces for cross-functional teams.
- Documented workflows and created technical walkthrough tutorial videos for training.
- Audited quality assurance workflows and reported software issues to engineering teams.

### Operations Associate @ X, the moonshot factory
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Mountain View, California
- In field data collection and feedback for expansions into new areas.
- Prototyped new operational workflows to test readiness for wider distribution among team.
- Reported software and hardware issues for engineering teams.


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/timothy-akana
- Portfolio: https://timothyakana.tech

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Last updated: 2026-03-29