Summary
Colby Sato is a Senior Product Designer with 11 years of experience crafting consumer mobile experiences, growth features, and data-driven design systems across companies from Twitter and Grindr to Meta. He combines user research, visual language, and product thinking to drive measurable retention and acquisition improvements—most notably shipping Twitter’s Share Sheet and redesigning Muze to reach 50K downloads with a 4.7 rating. As a freelancer he launched core UX and checkout flows for AI and GPU marketplaces, and currently focuses on AI foundations at Meta. Trained as an engineer at Olin College and fluent in Mandarin after study in Taiwan, he brings both technical rigor and cross-cultural perspective to product challenges. An artist at heart, Colby blends creative tooling and data visualization to make complex systems approachable.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Highschool Diploma, Highschool Diploma at Punahou School
Bachelor of Science Engineering; Biological Engineering, Bachelor of Science Engineering; Biological Engineering at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
Growth Growth, Growth Growth at Reforge Growth Series Fall 2017
English, Japanese, python