About

Brian Dote built his first websites in 1998 and founded Tapiki in 2002 to bring Silicon Valley engineering standards to Hawaiʻi organizations. Before Tapiki, he built large systems for Silicon Valley technology companies, including Cisco Systems, Incyte Genomics, and NorthPoint Communications.

From 2004 to 2008 he was UI Engineering Manager at Apple, leading the team for .Mac, the web services platform that became iCloud. He also worked on the web software team for the first iPhone. The work led to five US patents in iOS and iCloud technology.

Back in Hawaiʻi, he became the first Chief Innovation Officer at Mid-Pacific Institute, and then Senior Vice President and Director of Mobile & Digital Commerce at Bank of Hawaii, where he co-led the redesign of boh.com. He was Chief Engineer at iFirst Medical Technologies until 2025, has been founding mobile engineer at Ecobot since 2016, and has been CTO of Mission Management Company since 2024.

Brian leads the technical work on every Tapiki engagement and stays hands-on in the code, with design and development partners Tapiki has worked with for years. Tapiki has worked for more than 150 organizations, from the State of Hawaiʻi to Harvard.

He is Board President of Education Incubator, Board Secretary of The HOME Project, Vice Chair of the Hawaiʻi DOE IT & Digital Transformation Pathway Advisory Council, and an advisor to the Waipahu High School Academy of Industrial Engineering Technology. He was named to Hawaii Business’s “20 for the Next 20” in 2017 and was a Webby Honoree in 2009.

Brian holds an MS in Management Information Systems from Hawaiʻi Pacific University and a BA in Zoology from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, with certificates in machine learning from Cornell (2023) and in blockchain from Caltech CTME (2023) and Cornell (2022). He grew up in Waipahu and went to Waipahu High School.