Dav Yaginuma

Born in San Francisco, but raised mostly on the coast in North Carolina. Rites of passage through a year waiting tables on Bourbon Street, mid-University period. Degree in Computer Science. Ran a 160 phone line BBS for IBM, then the Internet happened. Moved back to San Francisco. Cacophony and hacking ensued. Cofounded a chemical informatics company in 2000 that was acquired in 2005. Travels. Ideas. Met and married another hapa, from Tokyo. Both took her mother's maiden name. Studied extreme programming with Pivotal Labs. Spawned a daughter or two. Joined a cognitive training startup, Lumos Labs, leading the web engineering, then switched to mobile engineering. Co-created Meexo, a dating app which presented at TechCrunch Disurpt and reached the finals at SXSW Accelerator 2012.