[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":83},["ShallowReactive",2],{"team:crew:es":3},[4,12,19,24,29,37,42,49,55,61,66,71,76],{"id":5,"name":6,"role":7,"bio":8,"avatar":9,"width":10,"height":11},45,"Douglas Driving","","Douglas is a Swedish product, service, games, and systems creator. He has a background in product development and service design, but his inability to let go off his teenage obsession with video games has led him to venture deep into the world of code and software engineering. He likes to philosophize, think about novel concepts, and sometimes act on his ideas and create things that do meaningful things for people. He has previously worked with public welfare services, AR fitness games, gamified education apps, community building, and has tried a nomadic lifestyle. Now he has landed in Tokyo, Japan, and works for Nekologic as a software engineer.","\u002Fimages\u002Fteam_avatars\u002FDouglas.png",160,320,{"id":13,"name":14,"role":7,"bio":15,"avatar":16,"width":17,"height":18},24,"Florian Thalmann","Florian Thalmann was born into a family of mountaineers in Switzerland, but his research activities have brought him all around the world. He's studied music, art, and computers and worked as a researcher in music analysis, computer music, and AI in places like Bern, Minneapolis, London, and Kyoto. He loves experimental music and has played and toured with lots of different bands. In his free time he likes spending time in nature and learning all sorts of new things.","\u002Fimages\u002Fteam_avatars\u002FFlorian.png",138,390,{"id":20,"name":21,"role":7,"bio":22,"avatar":23,"width":10,"height":11},47,"Jake Campbell","Over 15 years in the games industry. I have been lead designer on several top downloaded games on mobile. Most recently I was Head of Product Strategy for Q-Games in Kyoto. Before I moved to Kyoto I was Director of Live Games at Gear Games in Hanoi leading the live ops of several top 50 grossing games including WWE Champions, Marvel Strikeforce, and Star Trek Fleet Command.\n\nI now use my experience to conduct Business Development for Nekologic","\u002Fimages\u002Fteam_avatars\u002FJake.png",{"id":25,"name":26,"role":7,"bio":27,"avatar":28,"width":10,"height":11},35,"Kai Nyame Abbey","Kai Nyame Abbey grew up in Oakland, California- living on the USA’s west coast. She has been a developer for just over 10 years and has a strong ‘indiedev’ spirit. Kai has her roots in user-centered design but has found a new passion in technical production where she enjoys the intricacies of cross-discipline communication and color-coded spreadsheets. She adores her cat Whiskey and has a (not so) secret stash of cool fountain pens and stationary. In her spare time, Kai loves participating in game jams that allow her to try out new technical skills and practicing the berimbau (an Afro-Brazilian ethnic instrument she has practiced since primary school).","\u002Fimages\u002Fteam_avatars\u002FKai.png",{"id":30,"name":31,"role":32,"bio":33,"avatar":34,"width":35,"height":36},3,"Liam Conroy","CEO","Liam Conroy was born in Liverpool, U.K. and is an experienced developer of 15 years. Having worked in the U.K. games industry for several years as a game designer (Guitar Hero IV\u002FV, Split\u002FSecond), Liam came to Japan 9 years ago and rode the smartphone boom and setup as a freelance developer. In recent years his interests have moved into technologies that bridge the virtual and real divide, AR and game-assisted learning being of particular interest. Liam joined forces with Owen Bennett early 2017 and Nekologic was born. Nekologic likes to look at things differently, inquisitively and with eternal curiosity. Liam is fluent in Japanese, likes to play drums and enjoys snowboarding and spending time with his rescue-cats; Ada Lovelace and Bronski Junior, who most likely come from different dimensions.","\u002Fimages\u002Fteam_avatars\u002FLiam.png",168,402,{"id":38,"name":39,"role":7,"bio":40,"avatar":41,"width":10,"height":11},31,"Marisa","Marisa was born in Kyoto and raised in Tottori and has lived in Kyoto since entering university. During her studies, she also studied abroad in Canada and volunteered to visit primary schools in the Philippines. She has worked intensely in the education industry for over seven years and has taught hundreds of children. In addition to teaching kids, she also took students on summer camps and diving in rivers.\nAt Nekologic, Marisa helps manage the company, focusing on the administrative and accounting side of things, whilst learning about the intricacies of the software development industry. Her hobbies include gaming, vegetable gardening, driving to Shiga, drinking beer and talking. She also enjoys collecting pins from souvenir shops in the countries and regions she visits.","\u002Fimages\u002Fteam_avatars\u002FMarisa.png",{"id":43,"name":44,"role":7,"bio":45,"avatar":46,"width":47,"height":48},20,"Marsden Jacques","Marsden Jacques has an intense love for the problem solving nature of all things computer science with practical experience as a full stack web and game developer, as well as several research publications to his name in the field of combinatorics. He likes to spread his free time between working on games and websites, playing games, exploring, reading, obsessively listening to whatever music has recently caught his attention, and spending a bit too much time on https:\u002F\u002Foeis.org\u002F. After growing up in the frozen wastes of northern Maine, he attended university in South Korea before ending up as a freelancer in Japan. He’s finally wandered his way to Nekologic where (as a fellow appreciator of ‘good code’ himself) he’s applying his combined theoretical and practical background in computer science in a quest to someday reach the high standards set by his coworkers. He speaks Japanese with a Kansai accent, has forgotten most of his Korean, and sometimes finds himself forgetting his English as well.","\u002Fimages\u002Fteam_avatars\u002FMarsden.png",162,396,{"id":50,"name":51,"role":7,"bio":52,"avatar":53,"width":54,"height":11},41,"Nao Chihiro","Traditional Japanese musician, taiko performer, and cultural educator based in Kyoto.\n\nWith over 30 years of experience in festival culture, folk performing arts, and traditional Japanese music, I lead workshops, performances, and cultural programs in Japan and Europe. My work focuses on preserving and sharing the deeper cultural meanings behind music, rhythm, and community traditions.\n\nI am also the representative of Shojo LLC, promoting Japanese cultural experiences, traditional performing arts, and sake culture to international audiences.","\u002Fimages\u002Fteam_avatars\u002FChihiro.png",231,{"id":56,"name":57,"role":7,"bio":58,"avatar":59,"width":60,"height":18},12,"Pablo Antoniadis","Pablo Antoniadis is from France. He graduated from Ecole Centrale d’Electronique (ECE) in Paris in computer science and data engineering.\n\nHe likes to replicate scientific research like “Conway’s Game of Life” and path findings algorithms such as Dijkstra algorithm or Bellman-Ford algorithm.\n\nHe likes to create art around his room with well-placed post-it notes. Sometimes he thinks that they might end up spilling out onto the street and adding to Paris’ street art. He also plays guitar and ukulele. Born in France into an Argentinian family, he can speak Spanish and French. In 2018 he also studied overseas in Korea and now he is working remotely for Nekologic. He'll move to Kyoto in December 2022.","\u002Fimages\u002Fteam_avatars\u002FPablo.png",150,{"id":62,"name":63,"role":7,"bio":64,"avatar":65,"width":35,"height":18},2,"Regesh Maharjan","Regesh Maharjan is a backend developer from Kathmandu who got his graduate degree in Kyoto. He has been coding in python since he entered the amazing world of Arch Linux 11 years ago (In binary). He personally likes terminals instead of GUIs.  Before this, he worked in the mysterious world of wireless network design and troubleshooting leaving behind a few traces of his frequencies in the vicinity of the radio towers. At present, he is a full-time backend\u002Ffull-stack\u002FDevOps engineer at Nekologic developing top-secret internal applications and reminding himself to have fun with bugs and not with insects.","\u002Fimages\u002Fteam_avatars\u002FRegesh.png",{"id":67,"name":68,"role":7,"bio":69,"avatar":70,"width":10,"height":11},4,"Sebastian","Sebastian was born in Slovenia but his love for creating characters and worlds brought him to Japan to research and draw comic books at Kyoto Seika University’s Masters program. He also kept busy by working on video game hobby projects with his programmer friends and interpreting between English and Japanese. After graduation he joined Capcom as a game designer \u002F planner, first on the Dragon’s Dogma Online team, designing story quests and new contents, before being transferred to what would later become The Street Fighter 6 Team. He did systems design, content planning and eventually became a level designer for the game’s World Tour Mode. Working closely with programmers and designers, he got mesmerized by the mystic languages that could control the flow of lightning locked inside glyph-rocks (computer chips) and ended up learning the magical art himself. His last year at Capcom was spent prototyping on a yet unannounced project where he was designing game documents and building playable prototypes in-engine, before his newly found love for programming took over, and brought him to his new home - NekoLogic!","\u002Fimages\u002Fteam_avatars\u002FSebastian.png",{"id":72,"name":73,"role":7,"bio":74,"avatar":75,"width":10,"height":11},53,"Tokiko Shima","Tokiko is an American born in Japan, who spent around 30 years in the United States before later returning to Japan. She has a background in accounting, finance, and business administration, and has worked across both Japanese and international business environments. Having lived and worked between cultures for many years, she has developed a practical understanding of how differently people, companies, and systems can operate.\n\nAt Nekologic, Tokiko works as Admin Manager, helping coordinate the company’s Japan-side operations. Her role includes employment structure planning, payroll and social insurance oversight, labor compliance alignment, immigration-related coordination, and communication with licensed professionals such as tax accountants, labor consultants, lawyers, and administrative scriveners. In simple terms, she helps translate Japan-side paperwork, rules, and operational chaos into clear next steps for Nekologic’s global team.\n\nOutside of Nekologic, Tokiko runs Authentic Hues, where she explores color, impression, and personal presentation. She has a deep love for the UK, especially Scotland, and firmly believes: No Scotland, No Party. She spends time with her cats, Bella and Sanma, who may or may not believe they are part of the management team.","\u002Fimages\u002Fteam_avatars\u002FTokiko.png",{"id":77,"name":78,"role":7,"bio":79,"avatar":80,"width":81,"height":82},25,"Victor Frade","Victor Frade graduated as a game developer from FUMEC University and has worked on serious games, educational games, vr games and gamification projects for personnel training. He is a coffee connoisseur, anime fan, and Japanese culture enthusiast. He enjoys working on 3D anime art projects for practice, as well as creating 3D artisan key caps.","\u002Fimages\u002Fteam_avatars\u002FVictor.png",132,372,1787044511544]