Kate Matsudaira
Personal Information
Organization / Workplace
Urban InfluenceLocation
Greater Seattle Area, WA United StatesOccupation
Entrepreneur & CreatorIndustry
Technology / Software / Internet
Website
katemats.comAbout
Experienced VP & CTO with a passion for large scale web systems and startups. I have extensive experience as a hands-on programmer (primarily in C/C++, Ruby, and a little Objective-C), but have a strong interest in product (definition, UX, and strategy). My greatest asset is my ability to build great teams and execute quickly and efficiently on business goals. My background working in big companies coupled with experience on the executive teams in startups, I know how to build things in a scalable way (check out my chapter on large scale websites from the Architecture of Open Source Applications, published May 2012 - http://www.aosabook.org/en/distsys.html), but also do so on limited r...