Hoo Shao Pin (shooperman)

Current

• Founder and Director at Spiragram

Past

• General Manager at Aretae Pte Ltd
• CTO at Tricast Pte Ltd
• Co-founder, Technical Director at SilkRoute Ventures

• Information Architect at National Computer Board
• Multimedia Developer at Systems & Computer Organisation

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Education

• University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Hwa Chong Junior College

Connections

77 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Blog
• My Company
• My Website

Hoo Shao Pin (shooperman)’s Summary

Serial entrepreneur. Rails programmer. Avid reader. Founded Spiragram - a web application development shop. Climate change & peak oil advocate. Contrarian investor. Saves in gold. Likes to cook and host dinner parties. Quirkyalone, sometimes.

Hoo Shao Pin (shooperman)’s Specialties:

Inspired and purposeful website and web application designs, user experience, CSS, Javascript, Ruby On Rails

Hoo Shao Pin (shooperman)’s Experience

• Founder and Director

  Spiragram

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  January 2006 — Present (3 years 11 months)

  Passionate about developing Web 2.0 applications with Ruby on Rails, cool javascript libraries, CSS and MySQL. Web strategy consulting. User experience design.

• General Manager

  Aretae Pte Ltd

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  1996 — 2005 (9 years )

  I'm one of two co-founders of Aretae and played various roles from CTO to GM to MD.

• CTO

  Tricast Pte Ltd

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  1998 — 1998 (less than a year)

  I took a sabbatical from Aretae and joined Tricast as its CTO.

• Co-founder, Technical Director

  SilkRoute Ventures

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  1994 — July 1996 (2 years )

  Silkroute is my first Internet startup. I still remembered being the only technical guy alongside 4 partners who did sales, marketing and PR. Crazy days ;)

• Information Architect

  National Computer Board

  (Internet industry)

  1992 — 1993 (1 year )

• Multimedia Developer

  Systems & Computer Organisation

  (Internet industry)

  1991 — 1992 (1 year )

Hoo Shao Pin (shooperman)’s Education

• University of Wisconsin, Madison

  B.Sc. , Computer Science, Mathematics , October 1988 — February 1990

• Hwa Chong Junior College

Additional Information

Hoo Shao Pin (shooperman)’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My Company
• My Website

Hoo Shao Pin (shooperman)’s Interests:

RubyOnRails, Social Graph, Contrarian Investing, Peak Oil, Climate Crisis

Hoo Shao Pin (shooperman)’s Contact Settings

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