Built by an engineer. Rooted in Hawaiʻi.

I started my career at Apple in 2004, 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.

In 2009, I founded Tapiki. The original idea was simple — bring Silicon Valley engineering standards to Hawaiʻi's organizations at a level of quality they couldn't otherwise access. Over 17 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. The tools changed — AI fundamentally altered what a small team can build — but the mission didn't. We design and deploy AI-powered systems that solve real operational problems for organizations. SaaS platforms. CRMs. Operational automation. Data pipelines. The kind of production infrastructure that runs businesses, not chatbots bolted onto websites.

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.