Satoru Sasozaki
Co-founder & CEO at Waffle Journal
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolSatoru Sasozaki is a founder and product-focused engineer with 11 years of experience, currently leading Waffle, a group journaling app designed to help couples and families build deeper relationships and combat modern loneliness. Based in New York, he combines applied linguistics training with practical ML and engineering experience—previously implementing HMMs and language tokenizers that dramatically improved Japanese translation accuracy. A Snap Yellow Accelerator fellow and On Deck founder fellow, he has experience turning early-stage ideas into funded, mentor-backed products. Satoru is hands-on across product, backend, and algorithmic work, bridging user-centered design with technical rigor. He brings a track record of shipping measurable improvements and a persistent focus on designing tech that fosters authentic human connection.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Applied Linguistics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Applied Linguistics at Kwansei Gakuin University
Japanese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
animation10
render10
ios-library10
bodymovin10
after-effects9
ios9
swift9
vector9
ios-animation8
camera4
photo4
photo-library4
react4
native-module3
camera-roll3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jjc235/BMe
Nov 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:243 pushes, 74 branches, 10 comments in 3 months
reacttypescript
jjc235/figevil
Mar 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:375 pushes, 109 branches in 3 months
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