Hide (ひで pronounced "Hee-Day") is a Business Development professional at
DigitalCube, where he works on increasing revenue for SaaS and EC sites, exploring efficiency improvements using generative AI, and developing new business models. Previously, he was a Developer Advocate at
Stripe, where he worked on writing, coding, and teaching how to integrate online payments. He has organized several community conferences including WordCamp Kansai 2024 and
JP_Stripes Connect 2019, the first Stripe user conference in Japan. Prior to Stripe, Hide was a lead Software Engineer at DigitalCube, focused on building plugins, open source, and developing SaaS application dashboards. He is also recognized as an AWS Samurai 2017, Alexa Champion, and AWS Community Builder. Hide lives in Hyogo, Japan with his family and two cats.