/* HUMAN */
libraz / Tokyo
Perl taught me survival, C++ taught me pain, Node taught me profit, Java taught me nothing.

/* STATUS */
Available. Currently 2-3 days/week.
Day job: OIDC and payment systems.

/* HISTORY */
In the industry since 2001.
Co-founded a dev shop as CTO. On-prem ops included. Mostly large-scale B2C.
Payment infra at a major game publisher -> QA project PM -> Account Manager -> Tech Lead -> Independent.
Full circle.

/* ALSO */
Running an idol agency.
Overseeing everything from contracts to songwriting, recording, costumes, staging, and distribution. Delegating most of it.
The MMA of entertainment. Humans are harder than distributed systems.
The agency and the OSS are hobbies. The OSS compiles. The agency core dumps.

/* DONE */
- Auth & payment infra at a Nikkei 225 company
- MTA (distributed), DNS, SMTP (1M+ carrier emails/hour)
- AWS, on-prem, GitHub Actions
- QA (ROI-driven, not dogma-driven)
- Hiring, org design, account management

/* WANT */
- Recommendation engine (the kind that actually recommends)
- Low-level tech, mass-market impact
- Engineers who ship, not sermons
- Poetry book (next life)

/* WHY */
Because I can. And I need to know that I still can.

/* YES */
Customer-facing. Legacy rescue. Minimal solutions.
Chaos that needs an adult.
Making slow things fast.

/* MAYBE */
if (product.deservesIt) java();
if (topic.deservesIt) { conference(); publicSpeaking(); }
if (role.worthIt) fulltime();

/* NO */
oncall(holidays)
socialMedia.manual.post()
say("Let's rewrite everything in ${NEW_FRAMEWORK}")
review(code, { reason: null })
take() // give() not implemented