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Taishi & Marie — Founders, Beyooond Creative Agency, Vancouver

Two Frog-supported engineers with complementary Japan/Canada paths who founded a Vancouver creative agency to bridge Japanese clients and North American build practices.

エンジニア→制作会社共同創業 · Vancouver · Beyooond Creative Agency

Profile

Taishi and Marie co-founded Beyooond Creative Agency in Vancouver after building local engineering careers with Frog support. Background flags are unknown in attributes; the interview itself differentiates their Japan experience clearly.

Current role

Co-founders of a creative/dev agency focused mainly on Japanese clients needing websites and service development, leveraging English-language/North American resources, culture, and delivery practices. They also aim to offer project collaboration and references for engineers arriving from Japan.

Japan experience

Taishi: prior backend engineer at Yahoo! Japan before Canada (exact Japan tenure years not stated). Marie: no professional engineering experience in Japan (career starter in Canada). Attributes mark background as unknown; use the interview’s stated split rather than inventing shared tenure.

Path to Canada / North America

Both used Frog to move from Japan. Taishi later worked as a full-stack engineer at agritech firm Semios (separate Frog interview exists). Marie completed a local vocational school, started junior, and within under a year reached intermediate frontend engineer at Operto Guest Technologies (hospitality tech / IoT OS). Both briefly worked part-time at COS (Frog partner); local references helped full-time offers. Frog also supported their company formation.

Outcome

Launched Beyooond to serve primarily Japan-origin production work while remaining North America–based, and to help subsequent overseas job seekers with real project references and mentoring.

Based on Frog’s Japanese-language interview. English summary for scanning (partners / employers). Original interview (Japanese)

Dual subject; Japan years for Taishi not quantified in source.

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