Gyo Hamamoto

（株）Link Sports

Co-Founder & CTO

- Developed a Q&A mobile and web application for sports.
- Currently developing a mobile application for sport team management.

2014-08 -

Netmile, Inc.

CTO

- Responsible for managing 10 engineers and 5 to 10 projects simultaneously.
- Introduced Google Apps to replace legacy corporate systems and successfully lowered the administration costs.
- Developed a gamification platform to increase customer loyalty and engagement towards websites.
- Developed a prize contest Facebook application for companies or organizations to quickly acquire "likes" from users.
- Developed a chrome browser extension to notify users if the site is running a Netmile campaign.

2011-05 - 2015-10

netprice, Ltd.

Senior Software Engineer

- Developed a crawler to fetch various venue information from three major restaurant sites: Gurunavi, Tabelog and Hotpepper.
- Developed a web application that enables users to easily plan or join events.
- Deployed and managed a web application in Google App Engine.

2010-11 - 2011-04

Agiligent LLC

Founder & CEO

- Acquired 3D avatar offshore development business from ngi vietnam.
- Responsible for administering corporate systems of ngi group.
- Developed a website for ngi group to provide reviews and comments on iPhone and mixi applications.

2009-02 - 2011-01

ngi group, inc.

EVP & CTO, ngi vietnam Co., Ltd.

- Successfully founded a local subsidiary in Hanoi.
- Offered technical assistance to companies invested by ngi group.
- Built offshore development structure for 3D avatar modelling.
- Participated in the project to build the first Tier 4 data centre in Vietnam.

2008-05 - 2009-02

ngi group, inc.

Project Manager, 3Di, Inc.

- Responsible for managing an international development team of 10 members.
- Applied Scrum methodology to manage several projects.
- Organized and prioritized numerous development tasks to form several concrete projects.
- Assigned developers to projects depending on their skills, experience and talent.
- Worked on the performance improvements of the OpenSim platform.

2007-11 - 2008-08

ngi group, inc.

CTO, ngi technologies, inc.

- Responsible for managing 20 engineers and 5 to 10 projects simultaneously.
- Built company's own development methodology by combining the company's development conventions and the real world agile development practices.
- Incorporated continuous integration into company's software development processes.
- Designed and implemented an internship programme for 4 Vietnamese students.

2007-04 - 2008-03

ngi group, inc.

Manager, Technology Development

- Developed web applications as a technical lead using various J2EE frameworks.
- Replaced company's proprietary web application framework with OSS alternatives.
- Localized an international web application by collaborating with an international engineering team.
- Managed development teams of 2 to 8 members.

2006-08 - 2007-03

ngi group, inc.

CTO, BlogEngine, Inc.

- Responsible for delivering enterprise intranet blog application package to resellers.
- Designed the architecture of the intranet blog application.
- Led the intranet blog application development using various OSS technologies.
- Designed and implemented application's own API by extending AtomPP specifications to suit customers' needs.
- Managed a development team of 5 members.

2005-04 - 2006-08

ngi group, inc.

Software Engineer, Technology Development

- Developed Japan's first online mileage service both on PC and mobile platforms.
- Developed fully automated mobile advertisement distribution service.
- Led the development of additional features on the mobile advertisement distribution service.
- Identified and eliminated performance bottlenecks in high traffic internet services.

2001-09 - 2006-08

MSI Computer Japan

Technical Support Engineer

- Troubleshot technical problems on computer motherboard.
- Handled technical questions from customers and provided them with solutions.
- Built a corporate website to present technical information of every product.

1999-07 - 2001-08

東京大学

理科一類

University of Alberta

Physical Education and Recreation

1999-06

日文

母語

英文

流利

TOEIC Score 990 (IIBC)

2008-2

Sun Certified Web Component Developer for the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) (Sun Microsystems)

2003-12

Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform (Sun Microsystems)

2002-12