Akira Komatsu, an accomplished engineering director, has an extensive background in managing large, globally diverse teams of engineers. With over 30 engineers from 10+ countries at Indeed.com, he has demonstrated his passion for building teams of individuals with unique backgrounds and supporting each engineer with coaching and advice. Komatsu still enjoys programming for websites and mobile applications and takes pride in finding simple solutions for complex problems. Komatsu's expertise also includes expanding businesses into Asian and Middle Eastern markets, as he helped manage TripAdvisor China and Globalization Engineering teams. Prior to that, he worked as a Principal Software Engineer for Datacenter Automation at BladeLogic, Senior Software Engineer for Internationalization at Basis Technology, and Research Developer and Software Engineer for Process Automation at Yokogawa.