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    Curt Sampson has over 25 years of experience in IT, including 15 years in leadership roles in software development, database administration, systems administration, and network engineering. He has worked as an independent consultant, CTO, CEO, and in other technical roles for companies in Japan and elsewhere. Sampson has expertise in areas such as distributed systems, security, and financial trading systems.

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    Curt Sampson 
    (Updated: 2017-07-28) 

    Villa Frudeli 502  E-mail: ​[email protected] 


    2-18-7 Dogenzaka  Mobile e-mail: ​[email protected] 
    Shibuya-ku, Tokyo. 150-0043  Telephone: +81 90 7737 2974 

      Canadian/US dual citizen 


    Speaks/writes native English, casual Japanese  Permanent Residence visa for Japan 

     
    (For detailed information on technical skills and experience, see my ​Expertise 
    List.​ For other documents and further contact information see my ​Overview​.) 

    Career Summary 
    ● 25 years experience in IT. Over 15 years in lead positions in software development, 
    DBA, sysadmin and network engineering sectors. 
    ● Both broad and deep technical knowledge, including highly complex areas such as 
    distributed systems and security. 
    ● Management experience, including CTO and CEO positions in startups. 
    ● Strong business focus, with extensive business as well as technical knowledge in 
    various industries, including finance (e.g., automated trading on options markets), 
    fintech (including PCI-DSS compliance), telephony, engineering, Internet service 
    provision, and various other niche- and mass-market sectors. 
    ● Introduced and promoted project management and development process 
    improvement systems and methodologies (esp. Agile) in many organizations. 

    Positions Held 
    Principal Oct. 2017 - Present 
    Simplex Inc. (Tokyo) 
    Leader/manager in "Genesis" project of initiatives related to software development 
    lifecycle, improved development systems, and quality and reliability engineering. 

    IT Director (Japan) March 2016 - Sept. 2017 


    Omise.co (Tokyo office of Thailand Company) 
    Responsible for management of physical (Japan, Indonesia) and cloud server 
    infrastructure, security analysis, and PCI compliance. 

    Independent Consultant June 2013 - March 2016 


    Self-employed (Tokyo) 
    Typical consulting work as described below, including further work with The InVitesse 
    Group.​ ​Also took significant time to work on personal projects, including graduate-level 
    study of mathematics (Category Theory) at Tokyo University. 

    Architect / Business Analyst July 2011 - Nov. 2014 


    The InVitesse Group (Tokyo, Japan) 
    (This was on a part-time consulting basis from June 2013 onward.) Designed and assisted 
    in some implementation of a distributed, switchless (i.e., no central servers), 
    high-reliability telephony (“turret”) system for use by financial traders. This included: 
    - Extensive work with X.509 public key infrastructures, SSL/TLS, etc. 
    - Original network protocol design, including security protocols. 

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    Independent Consultant May 2010 - June 2011 


    Self-employed (Tokyo) 
    Various consulting jobs, including: 
    - Performance analysis/improvement for a web applications and DBMSs 
    - Multi-server, multi-layer web site infrastructure design 
    - Systems for graceful failover in the event of hardware/software failure 
    - Training teams in agile and other software development techniques. 

    CTO / Lead Developer Aug. 2009 - May 2010 


    Tsuru Capital (Tokyo) 
    Worked together with a business expert (trader) as the primary developer and sysadmin 
    of an automated financial trading system written entirely in Haskell, including low-level 
    (e.g., Windows DDI) code. Business and financial analysis and design as well as 
    responsibility for the technical side. The project’s challenges included: 
    - Market analysis and trading algorithms 
    - Network connectivity to exchanges and custom protocol parsers 
    - Processing, storage and historical playback of market data 
    - An order management system interfacing with multiple exchanges and brokers, 
    and handling margin requirements in a sophisticated way 
    - Exchange simulation systems for back-testing against historical data 
    - A full set of automated testing frameworks for all parts of the system 
    - Custom RDBMSs for recording and high-speed queries of trade activity 
    - Millisecond-level performance analysis and optimization 
    - Client/server monitoring and control systems (Windows and Unix) 
    - A real-time interface with Microsoft Excel 

    Founder And CEO May 2006 - Aug. 2009 


    Starling Software K.K. (Tokyo) 
    Managed all operations of this consulting and software development firm. Lead 
    development on internal and client projects, including custom database systems, an 
    accounting system, a multi-language build/test framework and a web framework with 
    special features for internationalization. Client projects included a high-frequency 
    financial trading system (see Tsuru above), a high-traffic, multi-host website serving 5-7 
    Gbps continuously during peak hours, and work on audio and video telephony and 
    switching services. 

    IT Director July 2004 - Apr. 2006 


    Tabemo.com / Concepi K.K (Tokyo) 
    Designed and implemented all IT operations for a small startup selling restaurant 
    coupons, updating on a minute-by-minute basis, on the web. Worked with COO and 
    board of directors on business strategy. 

    Chief Architect Feb. 2002 - May 2004 


    Vanten K.K. (Tokyo) 
    Led a team of seven in building an enterprise business system (including CRM) for a 
    client retailing mobile telephony and Internet access. Project management and technical 
    lead on agile development processes (Extreme Programming), program design, database 
    design, and systems administration. Responsible for 24x7 production systems. 

    Lead Systems Architect and Developer Nov. 1999 - Jan. 2002 


    Blink.com (New York, Tokyo) 
    Designed and coded a large multilingual database-driven website using Java servlets. 

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    Designed and built a custom ORM layer. Network and server design and setup for 24x7 
    operation. Introduced Extreme Programming (Agile) methodology. 

    Senior Unix System Administrator Mar. 1999 - Nov. 1999 


    Spring Lake Consulting / UBS (New York) 
    Contract assignment in the Distributed Systems department at Warburg Dillon Read (just 
    after merging with UBS/SBC) doing Unix system administration and Y2K remediation. 

    Independent Consultant Nov. 1998 - Mar. 1999 


    Self-employed (Vancouver, Canada) 
    Various consulting jobs focusing especially on Unix systems administration, network and 
    firewall design, and IT security. 

    Chief Technical Officer Feb. 1995 - Nov. 1998 


    Internet Portal Services, Inc. (Vancouver, Canada) 
    Co-founder of an early Internet Service Provider. With CTO and COO, did business and 
    marketing planning. Solely responsible for designing and implementing technical 
    infrastructure. Hired, trained and supervised all technical and technical support staff. 

    Working Holiday (London, England) July 1992 - July 1993 

    Systems and Network Administrator Apr. 1991 - July 1992 


    Fluor Daniel Wright, Inc. (Vancouver, Canada) Aug. 1993 - Feb. 1995 
    Starting from an entry-level systems administration position, I moved up to lead server 
    and network (LAN, WAN and telephony) systems design and maintenance. (The 
    1992-1993 gap was a working holiday in the U.K.) 

    Selected Publications 
    From Ruby to Haskell: An Introduction Jan. 2013 
    A presentation/tutorial aimed at showing Ruby programmers some interesting and 
    powerful elements of Haskell. Given at the Tokyo Rubyist Meetup. 

    My Dream GHC Environment Sept. 2009 


    Presentation at the Haskell Implementors Workshop, Edinburgh 2009. 

    Haskell in the Real World Sept. 2009 


    Peer-reviewed paper accepted for the ​2009 International Conference on Functional 
    Programming​. Described my experience using Haskell to write the high-frequency 
    trading system for Tsuru Capital described above. The ​video​ and ​slides​ are also available. 

    Stack Overflow May 2009 - present 


    In the ​top 3%​ of contributors by reputation. 

    Selected Blogs 2007 - present 


    • ​http://fpwf.starling-software.com/blog/ 
    • ​http://www.starling-software.com/en/blog/ 

    Open Source Contributions 


    Github: ​0cjs​, ​cynic-net​, ​dot-home​.  
    Various original projects and fixes/improvements to existing projects. 

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    NetBSD Developer Jan. 1996 - Dec. 2008 


    Concentration on Ethernet device drivers, build system, and pkgsrc packages. Portmaster 
    for DEC Alpha port in late ‘90s. 

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