About

I build tech products, companies, and teams. Mostly with code and lots of data. Usually successfully.

Full career details available in my CV .

Earlier roles include serving as Global Director of IT for Amnesty International, leading technology for the world’s largest human rights organization, and as Directeur Technique (CIO) of France’s fifth-largest private investment bank. Notably led the business and technical turnaround at Neo APAC / Pivotal Labs, growing it into a $10 M USD ARR company prior to its 2016 acquisition by Dell (now Broadcom).

Outside of work: passionate traveller, conservation and science advocate, and lifelong student of astronomy and physics (with future PhD ambitions). Regularly author and contribute to open-source coding projects in Go, Rust, Python, and Ruby. Currently training as an Emergency Medical Responder — just in case of a Zombapocalypse. Enjoy storytelling, snowboarding, snorkeling, and trekking (often in pursuit of animals or stars).

For secure communication, use GPG key ID 3F20 A015 3E1D 7043.

Import directly with:

curl https://keybase.io/wakatara/pgp_keys.asc?id=3F20A0153E1D7043 | gpg --import