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OKUNOKENTARO

An application engineer and a Web music instructor. He has both sides of a musician and an engineer in his career. He makes use of his career as a "integration of web and music" as a business.

Born in Mar 1, 1988 in Kyoto Japan.

At the age of 4 he touched the mouse for the first time at Super NES's video game "Mario Paint" and experienced composition. At the age of 6, he first experience programming on a HyperCard running on Macintosh Centris 650.

He began composing music with synthesizers and pianos since 2000 and continued to perform at the brass band and light music section during his student days. At the same time, open a website for publishing his creations, learn HTML, CSS.

He aspired as a musician. In 2006, he enrolled in composition department at AN MUSIC SCHOOL Kyoto, studied popular music and digital music. Since 2010, he studies in order to improve further technology and expressive power. He learned the law of harmony and the orchestration method, etc. and expanded the range of activities.

His composer's activities began in 2009 and put himself in the music industry. Produced theme songs and game music for Android application, PlayStation Portable software etc. In addition to doing wedding BGM, stage sound, sound production, live performance, orchestra assistant work, etc.

Since 2006, through part-time job of web design, he designed multiple corporate sites and EC sites. Learned jQuery, PHP, WordPress. Also, during music activities, he started programming as work efficiency, tooling the know-how gained in that tool and operating it as his own business tool. At that time, he learned Objective-C, JavaScript, TypeScript.

In 2014, found a chance of victory for programming and reduced music activity. Expanding activities as an engineer and receiving application development projects by AngularJS. In 2015, the Angular Japan User Group nominated the local Angular user group "ng-kyoto" in Kyoto his hometown, and acted as representative.

Worked as front-end engineer at Chatwork from 2015, and worked as a front-end engineer at PixelGrid Inc. in 2017. Rust, Scala etc, and expanded the range of languages. Since August 1, 2018, he became independent as Crescware, engaged in application development consignment, architecture consulting work, and it reaches the present.

the MIDI licence lecturer qualification possession certified by AMEI. The MIDI licence 1st grade possession. Engaged in instructor of digital music at the music school "School of Music Plan". Won the Roland Special Award at Web Music Hackathon #5. Writing "Angular Developers Guide". Angular Japan User Association Secondary Organizer. Event planning, lectures at a conference, writing a series, appearance to a broadcast, and so on.