Kung-fu movies and software development: what does the one have to tell us about the other? Hopefully, more than you might think at first glance.

Years ago, an itinerant Tokyo film critic left his entire collection of Hong Kong cinema (in a collection of brown paper bags) to young Corey Reid. This sparked an obsession with graceful leaps, bone-crushing falls and strange poses that remains undimmed to this day. Shortly after this obsession kicked off, Corey found himself in the software industry and found it equally fascinating. He has led project teams for software companies across Canada and currently runs the development team at FreshBooks here in Toronto. He wears cowboy boots, teaches Japanese swordsmanship and thinks Twitter is pretty neat.