About

About me in 10 seconds

Software Developer/Founder.

Trying to build a life that balances simplicity, progress and curiousity.

Currently building Eight Values, a tech job board that matches English-speaking developers in Japan to tech companies based on their values.

Raised in Vancouver / New England USA. Currently live in Tokyo.

Doing my own thing.

Timeline

• 1994 born in Tokyo.
• 1998 moved to Vancouver, Canada.
• 1999 Began playing ice hockey. Childhood memories: playing with legos, reading books, and fighting my brothers.
• 2007 First job in grocery store. Officially called “service clerk”, really a bag boy.
• 2008 Moved back to Tokyo. Summer jobs in Vancouver doing construction or landscaping.
• 2010 Moved to Connecticut. Read a lot of books. Played basketball, cross country, began lifting weights for first time.
• 2013 Moved to Maine. College: mostly spent socialing and studying literature, government, economics. Learned to play squash.
• 2017 Travel to Central and South America. Salsa dancing. Spanish.
• 2018 Graduated college. Move to Japan. Learn Japanese for real. Get N1.
• 2019 Learn to code, begin work in D2C ecommerce.
• 2020 Worked hard at building a D2C ecommerce business as the first employee. Failed. Resolve that next time, I’ll build a business my way.
• 2021 Begin working as software engineer. Coding daily. Studying hard. Elixir/Phoenix, Vue.
• 2022 Begin building Eight Values.
• 2023 Marriage.

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