Innovative, experienced and hands-on entrepreneur based in Tokyo. Strong interest in technology-driven business models, in particular in the consumer facing Internet service space.
Enjoys creative environments with a start-up attitude and big plans. Copes well with the nitty-gritty while maintaining a long-term and strategic focus. Writes and sells software.
Specialties: Search technology, computational linguistics, software engineering, technology sales, engineering team management, agile software development methods.
Knows Lucene, Solr, Hadoop, Mahout, Cassandra, HBase, MongoDB, Java, Python, Cocoa, Objective-C, C, C++, and a bunch of other languages and tools.
Speaks conversatio...