Summary
Harumi Sato is the founder and CEO of FLAT, a Tokyo-based coding-focused production company, and a UX designer with over a decade of hands-on experience in HTML, CSS, WordPress, and markup engineering. After starting as a coder at DNP and Nifty, she transitioned to freelance markup work in 2012 and incorporated FLAT in 2016 to scale a specialist front-end practice. She also brings academic experience as a part-time web design instructor at Kuwasawa Design School, mentoring the next generation of designers. An active speaker in the Japanese front-end community, she has presented on keeping markup craft alive and on coder culture at events like DIST.23 and CSS Nite. Her career blends product-minded UX direction with deep practical expertise in production-ready code and client-facing delivery.
11 years of coding experience
Japanese