Summary
Yuki Sato is a founder-CEO with 14 years delivering hardware-software IoT products and platforms from concept to operations. As Co-Founder and CEO of obniz Inc. he built a retrofit-focused IoT platform used across construction, healthcare, caregiving, and residential deployments alongside partners like Kashima Construction and NEC. He combines hands-on firmware, circuit and iOS engineering experience—dating back to ultrasonic communication protocols and one of Japan’s fastest iBeacon devices—with company-building that produced a 20M-download consumer app at papelook. Comfortable leading both product direction and engineering teams, he spans device design, embedded software, cloud integration, and service operations. Based in Chiyoda, Tokyo, he brings a pragmatic founder’s focus on making physical systems remotely manageable and operationally reliable. Notably, his trajectory shows repeated success turning experimental sensing and comms work into widely adopted commercial services.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Mechanical Engineering at Waseda University
Japanese, Chinese