Brief Biography | Kalzumeus Software
Hiya, I’m Patrick McKenzie. I grew up in the US and moved to Japan right after college. I worked for Japanese companies for six years. Concurrently with doing so, I founded a small software company and it took over my life. I eventually went full-time on that, ran a succession of small software companies, and after about ten years took at job working at Stripe. After six years of working there full-time I transitioned to being an advisor. I am currently on semi-sabbatical. I had a friend growing up from Puerto Rico. He didn’t love the hard “k” in Patrick, I didn’t love getting called “pato” followed by uproarious laughter, so we split the difference and settled on Patio. I used my favorite number to disambiguate from the other Patios when signing up for CompuServe back in, hmm, 1996. Enough of my professional life has happened online (particularly on Hacker News, though I’m patio11 practically everywhere on the Internet) that it stuck. Bingo Card Creator was the first product of my boo