Summary
Sato Mitsutaka is a seasoned Full Stack Engineer with over 20 years of software engineering experience and a decade of focused hands-on delivery in cloud-native, scalable web systems. He has designed and operated high-traffic SaaS platforms—most notably an auto-scaling multi-tenant Enterprise BBS on Google App Engine serving 90,000 users—combining Java, OAuth2/JWT security, and NoSQL/datastore optimizations that cut costs while improving responsiveness. Comfortable leading small teams or contributing as an individual, he pairs systems architecture and project management with deep RDBMS and Linux command-line expertise. He regularly bridges legacy migration and modern stacks, having moved enterprise data from Lotus Notes into cloud services and introduced Vue/Node front-ends for fintech products. Based in Wellington, New Zealand, he brings a pragmatic, transparent approach to development and operations, mentoring engineers through pair programming and code reviews. His background shows a rare blend of low-level Unix roots and modern cloud-first engineering.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Waseda University
English, Japanese