Kazato Sugimoto
CTO at Hello
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolKazato Sugimoto is a seasoned CTO and full-stack engineer with 14 years of experience building large-scale web and mobile systems, currently leading engineering at Hello in the UK. He architected AutoReserve from the ground up—an AI-driven restaurant reservation system including an AI phone-call agent and a meta-search covering ~800,000 Japanese restaurants—using Rails, React/React Native, TypeScript, PostgreSQL and GCP. Previously he built ML-backed features and data pipelines at Cookpad and led engineering for Gyazo after acquisition, supporting a global product with 10M monthly active users. Comfortable across infrastructure, data pipelines, and client apps, he blends hands-on implementation with product-focused leadership. His GitHub mantra—"code rules everything around me"—reflects a pragmatic, engineering-first approach to shipping resilient, user-facing systems.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Kyoto University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
python10
testing10
data-manipulation10
azure-functions10
test-framework10
ruby10
serverless10
assert10
runner10
concurrency10
javascript10
async10
dataframes10
pandas10
ava10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
gyazo/Gyazo
Nov 2013 - Aug 2015
Contributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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uiureo/ssslack-chrome-extension
May 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:1 release, 32 commits, 1 PR in 11 days
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