Mark Makdad
Board Member at Japan Association for Financial APIs
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolMark Makdad is a fintech founder and technology executive with 15 years’ experience building consumer and B2B financial platforms from Tokyo. As Founder & CTO of Moneytree he created Japan’s leading financial data portability platform and APIs, combining product, engineering and customer relationship expertise to bridge consumer expectations and regulated institutions. He helped shape Japan’s fintech landscape as a founding board member of the Fintech Association of Japan and now serves on the Japan Association for Financial APIs to promote self-regulation and sound API business practices. Mark’s background spans end-to-end solution delivery, Japanese SI projects, and mobile-first product strategy from his prior startup Long Weekend, giving him rare fluency across technical, regulatory and commercial domains. He is comfortable operating at the intersection of engineering and policy, translating regulatory constraints into practical platform advantages. Based in Tokyo and fluent in Japanese, he pairs hands-on technical credibility with board-level strategic leadership.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., East Asian Studies, B.A., East Asian Studies at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignJapanese Language, Japanese Language at Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies
Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (63)
swagger10
oas10
webapi10
rest10
specification10
cycle10
cocoa-touch10
coerce10
validate10
openapi10
uilabel10
macros9
git9
cocoa9
detectors9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
moneytree/Long-Weekend-Dev-Tools
Jan 2015 - Sep 2019
A free toolkit for professional iOS app developers, helping you to implement best practice across multiple projects. This includes macros and helper classes for Cocoa Touch that save you time with UI, data and life-cycle related conveniences. Released under an MIT style license.
Contributions:6 PRs, 6 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 9 months
best-practiceprofessionalcycleiosobjective-c
moneytree/doorkeeper
Jan 2015 - Jun 2021
Doorkeeper is an OAuth 2 provider for Rails.
Contributions:9 PRs, 8 pushes, 9 branches in 6 years 6 months
doorkeeperprovideroauth-2railsomniauth
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