KuraFire a.k.a. Faruk Ateş, a renaissance man from The Netherlands, lives in San Francisco as a product designer, engineer, storyteller, comedian, and time traveler (in reverse). Inspired by his experiences working on MobileMe at Apple, Inc., Faruk invented Modernizr, a web development tool that helped kickstart widespread adoption of then-cutting edge technologies in HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. Later, he co-founded Presentate, a responsive web-based presentation software startup, and is currently working on Love First, an evolving lexicon of love.
He is also an author, public speaker, and story coach focused on teaching emotional intelligence skills for better personal and professional relationships between people.
