I'm a lawyer and software developer based in Kyoto, Japan. I design and build digital products used by top-tier companies to manage massive vendor contract portfolios.

I've been a transactional lawyer for over twenty-five years, including at some leading global law firms. My law practice focuses on complex technology transactions like software licensing, IT ops, M&A, and data privacy.

I started programming computers at age twelve, when BASIC was still a popular language. Today, I use a variety of programming languages, but mainly Typescript and Python.

I'm currently building Augustus, an AI-powered platform for turning static contract documents into rich context that helps language models infer useful and reliable insights about contract terms.

I like using NextJS for web apps, and FastAPI for apps that require a Python runtime. For document processing, I find IBM's Docling with the Granite-Docling-258M VLM provides the most useful output for legal contracts. For generative LLMs, Meta's Llama 3.1 and IBM's Granite 4.0 are my preferred open models for legal apps.

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