Koji Ishimoto
Design Engineer Design Program Manager at PLAID, Inc.
Chiyoda, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolKoji Ishimoto is a design-minded engineering leader with 15 years of experience blending front-end development, UX design, and program management, currently shaping design programs at PLAID in Tokyo. Trained in Living Style Design, he moved from web design into UI engineering roles at companies like Mercari and MUFG’s Japan Digital Design, driving performance optimizations, AMP implementations, and design system work. He has hands-on open-source experience bootstrapping a CSS statistics tool (stylestats) and has led front-end teams to modernize stacks from CoffeeScript to ES2015+. Known for pairing visual craft with pragmatic coding, Koji also mentors new hires and establishes interaction and coding guidelines that scale across organizations.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Design, Bachelor's degree, Design at The University of Shiga PrefectureBachelor's degree, Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Information Science Correspondence Course, Bachelor's degree, Faculty of Science and Engineering Department of Information Science Correspondence Course at Teikyo University
English, Japanese
Github Skills (5)
css10
g10
javascript10
gruntjs10
testing9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
t32k/stylestats
Feb 2014 - May 2018
StyleStats is a library to collect CSS statistics.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 419 commits, 58 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Koji primarily focused on setting up the basic structure of the project by creating initial files and configuration for front end development. They initiated essential files such as Gruntfile.js, test/stylestats_test.js, lib/stylestats.js, and lib/cli.js, which suggests the project may be CSS statistics library. They also added a lib/files.css to include base css.
csscollectstatisticsstylestats
t32k/grunt-csso
Oct 2012 - Aug 2016
Contributions:5 releases, 80 commits, 5 PRs in 3 years 10 months
sassminifycss-filescsscsso
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