Public service announcement

I often see "Allow me to reintroduce myself" posts on LinkedIn, and without fail, that one song gets stuck in my head...

[Intro]

This is a public service announcement. Sponsored by me.

[Verse 1]

Allow me to reintroduce myself: my name is Kevin.
Kev if we're close; diasks2 if you're a dev.

First paychecks from my mom's photography biz,
then running registers at Price Chopper and mixing car paint at Gildo's.

MVP of the World Wiffleball Federation, Pittsfield backyard scene:
scoreboard lights for balls and strikes, greatest league you've never seen.

Business school at Wake Forest, study abroad in Japan,
then Charlotte, investment banking, securitization. Sound plan.

I left the structured-products desk in July of '08.
Lehman fell ten weeks later. Unrelated. Mostly.

[Verse 2]

October '08, one-way ticket to Tokyo, new plan:
teach English by day, write Ruby by night in Japan.

Built the school a student database for fun. Nobody asked.

Then, obviously: miniature golf. Putter King.
Wrote an entirely too long business plan and shipped a game on iOS.

Next, translation software: launched transdraft in January,
acquired by June.

Co-founded TM-Town, built Nakōdo with a patent in tow,
a search engine matching translators to the texts they already know.

That became part of ProZ.

[Verse 3]

2018: CTO at Sidekick, built an EMR called Cue.
Watched seventy teammates become one-eighty.
The software grew too.

Now the main act: since '22, I've been building Ambiki,
an EMR for pediatric therapy: speech, OT, and PT.

The hottest EMR in the game runs Ruby on Rails.

No dark patterns, no third-party tracking cookies,
nothing done on the sly.

[Outro]

Took me twenty years to spot the theme.

Teaching toddlers in Tochigi,
writing miniature-golf math lessons,
building speech therapy software:

The problems kept changing, and the center of it all stayed about four feet tall.

And since this is technically a public service announcement: Start with the problem.

I wrote a book about it: The Problem-First Method.

If we're newly connected: hi, I'm Kevin. Founder of Ambiki, author of The Problem-First Method, recovering miniature-golf lover, and father of three.

Say hello. I answer.