Rails hacker. 10 years in startups in SF as coder and/or CTO, then 7 years in Japan. Currently CTO at Cookpad in Bristol UK. Experience bootstrapping, lean startup, coding, scaling to tens of millions, hiring, being acquired...

Prior music career in rock-n-roll, toured the world - insanely lucky to work with artists from Bob Dylan to Ray Charles to The Specials to Joe Strummer.