Built by an engineer. Rooted in Hawaiʻi.

I built my first websites in 1998, and founded Tapiki in 2002. The idea was simple: bring Silicon Valley engineering standards to Hawaiʻi's organizations at a level of quality they couldn't otherwise access. Two years later, in 2004, I joined Apple, where I managed the UI engineering team for .Mac, Apple's web services platform that became iCloud. My team shipped products used by millions of people, and the work led to five US patents in iOS and iCloud technology. Helen Ma, who ran server engineering alongside me, called our collaboration "one of the high points of my career." It was one of mine too.

After Apple, I came home to Hawaiʻi. I became the first Chief Innovation Officer at Mid-Pacific Institute, where I led programs in VR/AR, AI and data science, and entrepreneurship, bringing emerging technology into the classroom at a systemic level. Then I moved to Bank of Hawaii as Senior Vice President and Director of Mobile & Digital Commerce, overseeing technology strategy during a period of significant digital transformation.

Through all of it, Tapiki kept building. Over 24 years, we've shipped more than 200 websites and 50 mobile apps for clients ranging from Leonard's Bakery to the State of Hawaiʻi to Harvard.

Today, the work has evolved. AI fundamentally altered what a small team can build, but the mission didn't change. We design and build mobile apps, web apps, and websites, integrating AI where it genuinely makes a product better. And we serve a new kind of client: founders and teams who prototyped something with AI tools and need experienced engineers to make it production-ready, secure, scalable, and built to last.

I'm currently CTO at Mission Management Company, where we're building a SaaS platform for church property assessment. I'm Chief Engineer at iFirst Medical Technologies, working on AI-integrated clinical tools. And I'm a partner at Hello Again Coffee. The thread through all of it is the same: building systems that work for real people, solving real problems, with whatever tools work best right now.