sa-san

Software Engineer / Creator

sa-san

Make the dots.

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So first, give your all to the thing in front of you — and make the dots.

Software engineer at Mercari, working from the frontend out to full-stack. Games, a startup, research — a scatter of dots I've planted along the way.

Things I have built

Works

Metavuild

Metavuild

A metaverse housing showroom.

A Unity-based metaverse housing-showroom service I built as Co-founder / CTO at ARKLET (now FriSti) — owning everything from the web frontend to the experience design.

UnityC#MetaverseWeb

moji-sand

Coming soon

A once-a-day word-play app.

A sandwich of words you can play once a day — a personal project with simple rules and a cute UI.

React NativeTypeScriptGame
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typed-notion-cli

Type-safe TS schemas from Notion.

A CLI that generates type-safe TypeScript schemas from Notion data sources.

TypeScriptCLINotion

cortex

A personal tool, built in Go.

A small Go tool to smooth out my daily workflow.

GoCLI

dotgo

Declarative dotfiles in Go.

A Go CLI for managing dotfiles declaratively.

GoCLI

Things I have written

Writing

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Background

Experience

  1. Now

    Software Engineer

    Mercari

    Joined as a frontend engineer in the Customer Service domain; now working full-stack across the area.

  2. 2022 – 2025

    Co-founder / CTO

    ARKLET (later FriSti)

    Built the metaverse housing showroom Metavuild in Unity. Led engineering end to end — from the web frontend to standing up an agile process.

  3. 2024

    Software Engineer Intern

    Mercari / Rakuten / CyberAgent

    React/PHP/Go at Mercari, Next.js/FastAPI at Rakuten, and won the overall MVP at CyberAgent's game-development hackathon.

  4. 2020 – 2026

    M.Sc. in Information Systems

    Nagoya University

    Studied electrical/electronic/information engineering as an undergrad, then completed the master's program in Information Systems. Thesis: object detection for V2I.

Tools of the trade

Skills

Languages

  • TypeScript
  • Go
  • C#
  • PHP

Frameworks

  • React
  • Next.js
  • React Native
  • Unity
  • FastAPI

Beyond code

Activities

Life is Tech! Mentor (2022 – 2025)

Taught Unity to teenagers and trained university student-mentors (Leaders).

Nagoya University Symphony Orchestra

Playing violin in the student orchestra.

Contact

Contact

Work inquiries, thoughts, anything — feel free to reach out.

support@sa-san.com