Shintaro Hara

CEO / Founder

Before striking out on his own in 2011, Shintaro Hara worked as an executive in several system development companies, where he was engaged in new business development and management of the development department. He did contract development work for PaaS utilization projects which Google joined as a technical adviser, as well as for of online services making use of IaaS and the like, for numerous Japanese clients and public institutions. He believes that the active use of advanced technology is key to the evolution of society and the self-actualization of engineers, and has also done extensive work introducing machine learning, natural language and image processing, and geographic information systems. He has been an engineer for over 15 years. He was the technical supervisor of the Japanese- language version of The Definitive Guide to Plone. As he was pondering the problem of the increasing di culty of cloud computing provision and exploring ways to distribute open designs, Yuki Ikeda—who had been quick to recognize the potential of the blockchain—reached out to Hara, who realized that they should join forces to work on their ideas. They brought in Toshihisa Nakamizu, who excels at project implementation, and began work on reindeer.