Sho Kuwamoto Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, Us

Working on Figma, mostly the editor part.

San Francisco, California, Us

Part of the original team that brought Medium from concept to release. Helped define and manage the engineering process, and also did hands-on engineering in Medium's uniquely fluid organization (read more about Medium's org philosophy here: http://firstround.com/article/how-medium-is-building-a-new-kind-of-company-with-no-managers)* Led Medium's engineering processes during its early critical time of growth.* Was responsible for the design team, and overall product process.* Held regular one-on-ones to evaluate, mentor and provide feedback to other engineers.* Along with the CTO, helped with recruiting and hiring, particularly for the iOS team.* Implemented significant portions of Medium's early code, including the authentication system, notes system, email notification system, wire protocol, front-end data store, and various internal systems within Medium.

Along with a partner, created a small company with two products: * Notespark: an iPhone app for note taking and synching (was one of the top 100 paid iOS apps in the productivity category for a while) * Phile: an online service that allowed communities to crowdsource information around a topic of interest.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Ran engineering for the tools portion of Flex, a framework for creating rich internet applications. Was also responsible for providing technical and strategic leadership across the Flex product line.• Successfully brought to market a robust Eclipse-based IDE that has changed customer perception of Adobe as a company that “gets” developers.• Drove many of the key ideas that defined v2 and v3 of the Flex Framework.• Tasked by the exec team to lead an effort to create a cohesive company-wide strategy against Microsoft. Helped drive these changes through the company across multiple business units.• Internally championed a new designer focused tool for Flex, Flash Catalyst. Built the team and led the initial design.• Raised awareness of Flex through speaking engagements, blogs, video tutorials, customer outreach, etc.

Ran engineering for the HTML division of Macromedia (~150 people), which eventually grew to include Dreamweaver, UltraDev, Contribute, Fireworks, and HomeSite. During the latter years of this time period (2003-2004), was co-responsible for the P/L for the division.* Managed large budgets (~20M direct expenses) and large teams (~150 people)* Grew division revenue from ~40M to ~300M, with Dreamweaver becoming the #1 tool for Web professionals.* Drove product strategy for the HTML division.* Led the creation of several new products (Contribute, Flex Builder), built teams, and brought them to market.

Was one of the founding members of the Dreamweaver team and implemented many of its key features. Started out as a Sr Engineer and moved up to become architect for the product.* Implemented the CSS subsystem, the template engine, and the greatly expanded v3 extensibility architecture.* Served as architectural lead and mentor to other engineers.* Helped shape the design and feature set of UltraDev.

Wakefield, Ma, Us

Served as Macromedia's representative to the CSS working group

Us

Implemented the garbage collector for the Magic Cap operating system.

B.S., Physics

Ph.D., Physics