Makoto Sakata
Software Engineer at Figma
Irvine, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMakoto Sakata is a software engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable web and platform integrations, currently focused on MCP and working at Figma. He has deep backend expertise from roles at Meta/Facebook where he led partner integrations for music and media, importing large-scale copyrighted data and mentoring small engineering teams. Makoto has a strong startup and product background—having led engineering efforts at KAIZEN Platform and Gilt where he helped launch major frontend migrations and billing/permission systems. He’s an active open-source contributor, notably contributing backend fixes and features to Automattic’s fb-instant-articles WordPress plugin, showing attention to real-world interoperability and plugin architecture. Based in Irvine, CA, he combines pragmatic implementation skills with cross-functional leadership and a history of shipping both core platform components and developer-facing tooling. A politics BA by training, he brings a non-traditional perspective to technical problem solving and stakeholder collaboration.
13 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
B.A Politics, B.A Politics at Gakushuin University
English, Japanese
Github Skills (4)
php10
wordpress10
html4
css3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/fb-instant-articles
Aug 2016 - Mar 2017
Archived (see Readme). Enable Facebook Instant Articles on your WordPress site.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 8 PRs, 1 push in 6 months
Contributions summary:Makoto primarily contributed to the WordPress plugin's functionality. Their work involved fixing bugs, adding new features, and modifying existing code. They implemented features such as the RTL option and the copyright footer, directly interacting with the plugin's core logic and settings. The changes touched multiple files, showcasing an understanding of the project's overall structure and the impact of code modifications.
wordpressinstant-articleswp-plugin
sakatam/dotfiles
Jul 2013 - Oct 2020
Contributions:221 commits, 107 pushes, 1 comment in 7 years 4 months
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