Yan Minagawa Community Management & Development Relations & Entrepeneur

Employment

Current

• Developer Relation Consultant & Start-up Entrepeneur & Prototype Developer & Technical Sales

Past

• Technical Sales at heinlein
• Technical Sales at profitbricks
• Business Partner at my2cents
• Developer Relations and API evangelist at moviepilot
• Partner and Worker at telekommunisten
• Developer Relations for Immobilienscout24
• IT Consultant for Büro Michael Schöbel
• Consultant and Advisor at twig
• Systemarchitect for multicult 2.0
• Headdeveloper for mict international

Experience

1. Technical Sales Consultant

   Heinlein - Linux Akademie, Hosting, Consultancy

   from 2013

   Within the startup profitbricks I was responsible to show and shape the unique hosting aproach to customers.

2. Technical Sales Consultant, Product Managment

   profitbricks - IaaS provider

   2012 - 2013

   Within the startup profitbricks I was responsible to show and shape the unique hosting aproach to customers.

3. Partner, Product Mananger, Developer

   my2cents - mobile community platform for consumer feedback

   2009 - 2010

   Within the ETH Zurich spin-off , I was managing the development of the website, android client and server infrastructure. I was a leading figure of the german business unit.

4. Developer Relations, API Evangelist

   moviepilot - web portal, recommendation platform & community for movie lovers

   2009 - 2010

   I was responsible for documenting and publishing the data-API, cooperating with companies and independent programmers who work with the API, promoting the company and API at developer events and conferences, reporting results and feedback to the managing directors.

5. Partner, Worker

   telekommunisten - worker‘s owned cooperation selling communication products

   since 2006

   I worked on conception, planning and development of “dialstation” – a international telephony system including a restful ruby on rails backend and php zend client.

6. Consultant for developer relations

   Immobilienscout24 - real estate portal on the German-speaking internet

   2011

   I supported immobilienscout24 by in conducting a developer contest for android applications using their API.

7. It consultant

   Büro Michael Schöbel - label and artist management

   since 2006

   I did planning and setup office it-infrastructure, developed website for artist management and several websites for artists.

8. System Architect

   multicult 2.0 - Berlin based intercultural radio station

   2009

   Planing and setting up a radio streaming service and integration with website.

9. Consultant, Advisor

   twig - Berlin-based design-agency for web- and print solutions

   since 2005

   I maintain the agency web- and mailserver. I realized several web-projects for agency clients.

10. Headdeveloper

    mict international - media development organization for the Middle East & Northern Africa

    2007 - 2008

    I realized „Iraqiscope“, a ruby on rails based video-portal for movies from independent iraqi movie makers.