Der Optik is a seasoned software leader and entrepreneur with 12 years building mobile-first products and backend systems from Japan's Chiyoda. As co-founder and CTO of PicApp he architected and single-handedly operated the backend that securely stored billions of photos powering the 2M-download iOS app POOL and led its acquisition by DMM.com, later helping launch hit apps like TELLER. He previously founded Taxbird, shipping an OCR-driven receipt-to-accounting system, and has hands-on experience across Android, iOS, Java/Spring APIs and Ruby on Rails. Comfortable shipping end-to-end solutions, he combines product-minded engineering with scalable operational practices—often running large services with lean teams. A pragmatic technologist, he’s interested in mobile applications, web scraping and testing, and blends research into practical features such as recommendation engines and automated OCR pipelines.
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