Hugh Sato
Principal Designer at 8th Light
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolHugh Sato is a Principal Designer at 8th Light with a decade of experience crafting human-centered software and interactive experiences from research through front-end implementation. He leads client engagements and design teams while shipping polished UI interactions in React and Vue, and he frequently bridges design and code with strong skills in HTML/CSS, JavaScript, and Rails. Hugh also channels a deep interest in creative technology and interactive art—building custom physical-digital installations and motion-driven systems that have earned awards and institutional recognition. He improves organizational processes to make design more equitable and transparent, and he teaches maker skills ranging from Arduino to CNC in community settings. Comfortable in both theater and museum contexts, he brings a rare blend of embodied interaction design and pragmatic product delivery rooted in a New Media BFA.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Backend Development Track Ruby on Rails Back-end Front-end, Backend Development Track Ruby on Rails Back-end Front-end at Startup InstituteBachelors of Fine Arts New Media, Bachelors of Fine Arts New Media at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Japanese, German, French
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Github Skills (53)
testing9
imagenet9
javascript9
webpack9
vue9
lstm9
react9
angular9
html8
documentation8
web-components8
vite8
typescript8
machine-learning8
p5js8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
proxycase/hugosato
Sep 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:37 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
proxycase/ddc_website
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
Doggy Daycare Website
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 3 branches in 11 days
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