About
I’m the co-founder and CTO of Krugle, a search-oriented system for programmers.
I graduated from MIT in 1983, and then got on Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride at Apple (Lisa, Mac). Somehow I wound up focusing on internationalization, and the Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Arabic, Indic, and Tibetan Mac OS projects.
In 1987 I started TransPac Software, a software development and consulting company that specialized in Far East text processing. We created a bunch of different versions of a word processor, as well as Japanese/Chinese input methods, an outliner, and an expert system for fitness clubs (don’t ask).
In 1997 we started consulting for Palm (actually US Robotics at that time) on internationalizing the Palm OS. That led to an interesting seven year relationship - along the way I got to learn more about obscure character sets than I really wanted.
In 2004 I took a break, and started helping out on the Chandler project. It was during that time when I realized that (a) search was really important for developers, especially in the world of open source, and (b) search wasn’t very good for developers.
So in 2005 I started Krugle. We got our first round of funding in October 2005, and our second round in May 2006. We’re currently focused on our enterprise product, which is fun because we use it internally while creating the product.
