Saki Sato

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Founder & CEO at Glade Health · Edtech

Glade Health
Tokyo, Japan · JST (UTC+9)
10+ years experience
Melbourne Business School
English, Japanese
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Overview

Founder & CEO of Glade Health, working on edtech. Previously built and sold a small edtech company. Most at home with content and mobile. Big believer in written communication.

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Skills
growtheducationmobilecontent
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Hiring our first founding engineer at Glade Health - Tokyo

Role
Founding engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
On-site
Compensation
$129k-$190k + equity
Team
Founding team, 6 people
Start
Within two months
Must have
Production experience with growth Production experience with mobile Good judgment about what not to build
Process
3 conversations, no take-home

Comp S$153k-S$177k. Three interviews over a week. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Tokyo, Japancontenteducationmobile
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Experience

  1. Founder & CEO
    Dec 2023 - Present
    Glade Health · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Tokyo, Japan
    • Grew the team to 88 people across 5 countries.
    • Previously built and sold a small edtech company.
    • Signed 260 paying customers, 7 of them enterprises.
  2. Security Engineer
    Mar 2021 - Sep 2023
    PropertyGuru · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Tokyo, Japan
    • Moved 86% of data platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  3. Principal Engineer
    Apr 2019 - Mar 2021
    Standard Chartered · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Tokyo, Japan
    • Previously an operator for 8 years before investing.
    • Backed 34 founders at pre-seed and seed.
  4. Frontend Engineer
    Aug 2017 - Mar 2019
    Atlassian · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Tokyo, Japan
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 37 minutes to under 3.
  5. Senior Site Reliability Engineer
    May 2016 - Aug 2017
    Toyota · 1 yr 3 mo · Contract · Tokyo, Japan
    • Mentored 15 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Built the experimentation framework 25 product teams use to ship changes safely.

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Education

  1. Melbourne Business School
    MBA, Business Administration
    2002 - 2004
  2. Peking University
    BSc, Economics
    1997 - 2001

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