About
Ryo Chikazawa is the Co-founder and CEO of Autify, which participated in the Alchemist Accelerator. He previously worked as an engineer at Viki (acquired by Rakuten), DeNA, and Hoodline, and co-founded Emosiv (acquired by CROOZ) as its CTO. His earlier work includes managing Viki's subtitling community, leading front-end architecture for the mobile game Blood Brothers, and developing the open-source web game framework Arctic.js in 2010.
Founder at Autify
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Experience
- AutifyCo-founder & CEOcurrent2016 — presentSan Francisco
- Pixel Labs, Inc.Software Engineer2016San Francisco
- Viki, Inc.Product Engineer2014 — 2016Singapore
- emosiv, Inc. (Acquired by CROOZ)CTO & co-founder2012 — 2013Shibuya-Ku Tokyo, Japan
- DeNASoftware Engineer2010 — 2012Shibuya-ku Tokyo, Japan
- UNITEAIR Co.,Ltd.Front end engineer2008 — 2010Shibuya-Ku Tokyo, Japan
- OtabaDesigner & co-founder2006 — 2008Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Skills & more
JavaScript12SASSHTML 57Flash4Ruby on Rails3CSS1Ruby1Git1Node.js1JavaObjective-CIllustrator
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PhotoshopAmazon Web Services (AWS)QA AutomationBehavior-Driven Development (BDD)User Interface DesignGraphic DesignEntrepreneurshipKeyframe AnimationStart-upsAgile TestingAgile MethodologiesLanguages English · Japanese · Mandarin
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Ryo Chikazawa?
- Ryo Chikazawa is the Co-founder and CEO of Autify, which participated in the Alchemist Accelerator. He previously worked as an engineer at Viki (acquired by Rakuten), DeNA, and Hoodline, and co-founded Emosiv (acquired by CROOZ) as its CTO. His earlier work includes managing Viki's subtitling community, leading front-end architecture for the mobile game Blood Brothers, and developing the open-source web game framework Arctic.js in 2010.
- Where does Ryo Chikazawa work?
- Ryo Chikazawa is Founder of Autify.
- What companies did Ryo Chikazawa found?
- Ryo Chikazawa founded Autify.
- Where did Ryo Chikazawa go to school?
- Ryo Chikazawa studied at Seikei University (Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer science).
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Also attended Seikei University1
Shared employers
Also worked at Autify2
Also worked at Viki, Inc.3
Also worked at DeNA13
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