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Technology Group
Independent systems engineering for the media business.
Music. Broadcast. Apps.
cat /etc/motd
We build the machines the media business runs on —
the systems between a song being written and a songwriter getting
paid, between a wire story publishing and a channel going to air.
Quiet
infrastructure. Loud results. The machine does the heavy lifting;
a human always signs off.
systemctl status --all
[MUSIC] Publishing & distribution technology
└ royalty engines · global copyright registration (CWR) at scale · catalog, metadata & delivery pipelines · two decades in the engine rooms of music distribution and publishing administration
[BROADCAST] FAST channel automation
└ wire-feed ingest → AI-assisted production → Amagi CLOUDPORT delivery · nothing airs without editorial sign-off
[APPS] iPhone, iPad & Mac software
└ SwiftUI, shipped end to end — prototype to App Store, including the servers behind them
[CLOUD] Architecture & technology operations
└ building on AWS since 2007, running networks since the DS1 era · migrations measured in decades of catalog · cost control, security hardening, the unglamorous ops that keep royalties flowing
[AI] Applied AI in production systems
└ drafting, voicing, enriching, translating — always behind a human approval gate
TRACK RECORD: distribution systems pushing 12,000 releases a day to
iTunes, Amazon & Spotify · royalty calculation time cut in half at global scale · a live
FAST channel on LG Channels across seven European territories.
git log --oneline --reverse kane/career
199x broadway — first rack: Cisco routers at Broadway Trading, 50 Broad St · WAN across three carriers, point-to-point DS1s bonded on Larscom Mega-T muxes, later DS3s · CCNA
2002 schonfeld — first-generation web services for a trading firm
2007 tunecore — employee #6 · built the cloud encoding & delivery system behind 12,000 album distributions a day
2013 songtrust — lead developer at the early-stage publishing-admin startup
2018 songtrust — head of engineering · team of 20 · copyright registration (CWR) unblocked at orders-of-magnitude speedup
2022 downtown — vp technology operations · cloud migration of royalties & copyright systems · calc time halved, incidents down >90%
2024 kanetechgroup — founded · technology & operational consulting
2026 HEAD — building MediaBlaze · finding missing royalties · shipping apps
ls /products
MediaBlaze
— automated news production for FAST channel operators.
Watches your newsfeeds, drafts and voices
the story, and stages a broadcast-ready package for Amagi. Private beta — onboarding a small
group of operators.
Retire Abroad
— see what your portfolio is worth somewhere else.
Converts your holdings into purchasing
power in Tokyo, Lisbon, Mexico City, Bangkok and beyond — rent, meals, lifestyle, projected
across your retirement decades. Free on the App Store; no ads, no tracking, everything stays
on your device.
/lab — a text-message video
jukebox that has run parties since 2013 · royalty-data tooling · always something rendering.
finger kane
Principal: Alex Kane — Brooklyn, NY
└ two decades building the systems behind music distribution, publishing administration, and broadcast · alumni of TuneCore, Songtrust & Downtown Music
Field notes: Japan
└ 2008: spoke at RubyKaigi (Tsukuba) · flown to Tokyo to hands-on verify a client's servers at the @TOKYO datacenter — the largest in the world at the time
└ on the ground at TuneCore Japan's Tokyo office, integrating the distribution technology built in New York with their team
└ copyright delivery with JASRAC/Avex counterparties · twenty years of visits · the complicated territories are the interesting ones
Contact: alex@kanetechgroup.com
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