I am a versatile Product Leader and Engineering leader, having held critical leadership roles in the evolution of two companies and worked in a variety of market sectors. I have grown and nurtured teams while also architecting and implementing initial systems, then scaled them to supporting hundreds of thousands of users across continents. Additionally, I have played key roles in shaping product, UX strategies and initial GTM strategies.Previously, I was the General Manager of Japan at Tellus, where I was responsible for steering the business in APAC, and product and engineering operations globally. In this capacity I established partnerships with prominent national and multinational corporations in Japan and the broader Asia-Pacific. Day-to-day, I collaborated with a multicultural team spanning seven nationalities, ensuring their well being and maintaining a mission-driven, high-performance culture.One of my key strengths which I am proud of is crafting products tailored to those less comfortable with technology. In this capacity, I've had people in their 50s and over working in the care industry state that this was the first time they have enjoyed using technology and wanted to continue. Likewise, in the construction industry the company I founded successfully became the most prolifically used mobile app amongst the construction workers in Australia and New Zealand.This experience also extends to B2C where POM, an aged tech platform to allow our elder relatives to age in place at home beat its crowdfunding target by over 1400%, gathering attention from various branches of Nikkei, Forbes and CNET.I have experience representing companies in the media, having spoken at multiple Tokyo Metropolitan Government Invest Tokyo events in collaboration with Accenture Japan, speaking at CityTech Tokyo 2023, and in various interviews in online publications and on TV.I am passionate about giving back to the industry and actively mentor at the Founder Institute, offering insights drawn from my journey in idea validation, product development, team leadership, and sales.===Technical skills:Proficient: Java, Golang, Python, Typescript, Javascript, NodeJS, Terraform, React, React Native, Android, Apache Flink, Apache Airflow, Bash, Make, Unix, CI/CD, SQL, REST, gRPC, Websockets, MQTT, Cloud Networking, DockerFamiliar: Kubernetes, Apache Spark, GraphQL, SwiftDatabase technologies: Postgres, MySQL, Redis, DynamoDBCloud: Over 50 services on AWS including EC2, Lambda, Fargate, EKS, RDS, IoT, API Gateway, Athena, Kinesis, S3, etc
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