Mirai Akagawa is a product-focused Partner Engineer and founder with 11 years of experience building and leading cross-disciplinary teams from Silicon Valley to Japan. She blends hands-on full‑stack engineering and UX-driven design—shipped reusable JS UI libraries and data visualizations at Apple—and now runs Akagawa Innovations while partnering at FAKE Inc. Her background in HCI research and an ECE degree from Carnegie Mellon informs a pragmatic, experimental approach to prototyping ambitious products like Sedier and Halfway. Mirai has hired and managed distributed international teams, translating stakeholder needs into roadmaps and scalable implementations. Colleagues describe her as a designer-engineer who values incremental progress and hires for courage and curiosity.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, General Education, International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, General Education at Yokohama International School
Bachelor of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Contributions:3 reviews, 4 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 months
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