Sae Nuruki
AI Agent Platform Lead
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolSae Nuruki is an AI product and engineering leader with 9 years of experience building consumer-facing mobile systems and company-wide AI platforms from Tokyo. As AI Agent Platform Lead at Mercari, she blends deep iOS product engineering (search and visual discovery for 20M+ MAU) with organizational change work to roll out agent-driven workflows for 2,000+ employees. She founded MeltingHack, growing Tokyo’s international hackathon community to 700+ builders and producing large OSS-LLM events that bridge local talent with global partners. As Japan Founder at Inception Studio she connects Tokyo and Silicon Valley founders, running buildathons that accelerate startup collaboration across borders. Her background in data analytics and neurotech mobile apps gives her a rare cross-disciplinary perspective on human-centered AI and product metrics. She’s particularly skilled at turning hackathon momentum into sustained developer ecosystems and enterprise adoption programs.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Google / Data Analytics Professional Certificate, Data Analytics, Google / Data Analytics Professional Certificate, Data Analytics at CourseraBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Tokyo Institute of TechnologyDiploma in Data Analytics Co-op, Diploma in Data Analytics Co-op at Toronto School of ManagementProgramming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
saenuruki/SwiftAlgorithm
Jan 2022 - Apr 2023
Contributions:238 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
MeltingHackTeam/CommunityWebsite
May 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:14 reviews, 30 PRs, 35 pushes in 10 months
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