Koji Ishimoto
About
Design Engineer
Koji Ishimoto was born and raised in Japan. He holds a degree in
Living Style Design from the University of Shiga Prefecture. He began
his career as a web designer and has a strong passion for programming.
Over the course of his career, he has been responsible for front-end
development using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, as well as onboarding and
training new employees.
He writes about web performance and mobile web in his blog, MOL - Designing for a Mobile World!
- Social accounts: GitHub / Dribbble / LinkedIn / Speaker Deck / SlideShare
Education
- B.A., Product Design, University of Shiga Prefecture, 2007.
Work Experience
2021 - Present, PLAID, Inc
PLAID
develops and manages "KARTE" that realizes "individual customer"
communication.
Design Engineer
2018 - 2021, Japan Digital Design, Inc
Japan Digital Design
drive change through financial innovation.
UI Developer
2016 - 2017, Mercari, Inc.
Mercari
provides a hassle-free and secure way to buy and sell items straight
from your mobile device or tablet.
Front-end Developer
2015 - 2016, Kaizen Platform, Inc.
Kaizen Platform
is a full-service digital customer experience optimization platform.
Kaizen scalably optimizes the entire customer journey with data-driven
creativity.
Front-end Developer
- Developed Kaizen Dashboard application built with AngularJS.
- Designed interaction design guideline in Kaizen Dashboard.
2012 - 2014, CyberAgent, Inc.
CyberAgent
manages Ameblo
which is one of the top sites in Japan.
Web Developer
- Managed the biggest front-end developer community in Japan.
- Led a front-end web performance team to improve speed of all social game applications in the company.
- Developed a bulletin board system service for ladies.
2007 - 2012, DMM.com Labo Co.,Ltd.
DMM.com
is one of the top E-commerce sites in Japan.
Web Designer, Web
Analyst
- Led an analyst team to implement Google Analytics and Adobe Analytics.
- Introduced Semantic HTML(Microformats).
- Improved main template view and top page view file with HTML5.
- Created HTML/CSS coding guidelines for web designer in the company.
Communities
JS Girls
2014 - 2015, founder
A developer community for
ladies who learn JavaScript.
Frontrend
2012 - 2014, Organizer
The Frontrend meetup is
about everything frontend technology.
kanazawa.js
2010 - 2012, Organizer
A community for
developers who learn JavaScript in Kanazawa.
Publications
- 2015/12/23, WEB+DB PRESS Vol.90 特集 実践マテリアルデザイン
- 2015/08/11, WEB+DB PRESS総集編[Vol.1~84]
- 2014/07/02, フロントエンドエンジニア養成読本
- 2014/03/18, Sass&Compass徹底入門(監修)
- 2013/10/24, WEB+DB PRESS Vol.77 特集 実践Sass/Compass
- 2012/08/27, すべての人に知っておいてほしいスマートフォンサイトデザインの基本原則
- 2011/09/26, iPhone & Android スマートフォンサイト制作の教科書