Kate Matsudaira is an experienced technology leader. She worked in big companies like Microsoft and Amazon, 3 successful startups (Decide acquired by eBay, Moz, and Delve Networks acquired by Limelight), before starting her own company Popforms (https://popforms.com/) which was acquired Safari Books. Having spent her early career as a software engineer she is deeply technical and has done leading work on distributed systems, cloud computing and mobile. However, she has shown herself as more than just a technology leader by managing entire product teams, research scientists, and building her own profitable business. She is a published author, keynote speaker, and has been honored with awards like Seattle's top 40 under 40. She sits on the board of the ACM Queue, and maintains a personal blog at katemats.com.

Technologist. Marketer.
Seeker of perspectives.
Passionate about developing talent.
Care about putting great work into the world.

∞ Work ∞

Global technology capabilities, engineering, quality, methods, devops and tools @ our 13,000 person agency
Founder/faculty member/lifelong learner @ SapientNitro CMTO University - growing amazing marketing technologists

∞ History ∞

Creative technologist (before the moniker was fashionable or passé)
C++ developer
Built high performance trading systems
System/enterprise architect
Shipped great software for major brands

∞ Also me ∞

'Now'-ist. Aspiring pit-master. Terrible carpenter. Truck driver. Buddha Bar.
Value diversity. Systems thinking. Scalability. Passionate craftspeople.

∞ Locations ∞

Chicago, via Boston, Bangkok, Thailand and all over India

∞ Tweet ∞

@sheldon_tm