Koji Ishimoto

About

Koji IshimotoUI Developer
Koji Ishimoto was born and grew up in Japan. He is originally from web designer, majored in living style design at University of Shiga Prefecture. He is also passionate about programming. In his career, he was responsible for coding HTML/CSS/JavaScript, and education to new employees.

He writes about web performance and mobile web in his blog, MOL - Designing for a Mobile World!. He is also a founder of JS Girls which is a community for ladies who learn JavaScript.

Education

  • B.A., Product Design, University of Shiga Prefecture, 2007.

Work Experience

2018 - Present, 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 desgin 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 cording 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

Personal Projects

  • 2015/01/28, Wisteria.css A class selectors based harmless CSS library.
  • 2015/01/14, Frontend Weekly A weekly e-mail roundup of frontend articles.
  • 2014/12/10, Sketch Plugin for generating Google Material Design color palette.
  • 2014/06/14, StyleStats A web application to collect CSS statistics.
  • 2013/04/25, Maple A better front-end boilerplate project.

npm

Chrome Extensions

Talks

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

  • tissa for iOS, 3mins
    10/27, Titanium Meetup Tokyo #14, DNP Gotanda in Tokyo
  • Implementing Google Aanalytics to a bigger site and report, 30mins
    10/22, CSS Nite LP, Disk 19 reprise, Bellesalle YAESU in Tokyo
  • Implementing Google Aanalytics to a bigger site and report, 30mins
    10/15, CSS Nite LP, Disk 19, Bellesalle JINBOCHO in Tokyo
  • Introduction to Titanium Mobile, 45mins
    09/25, kanazawa.js v1.6, Shinoki Cultural Complex in Ishikawa
  • The paid iPhone app I made, 30mins
    09/17, Ti.Developers.meeting Vol.0.3, Hatena Head Office in Kyoto
  • Mobile First - How shoud Web Designer do, 15mins
    06/04, UPGRADE JAPAN!!, Fukui Industrial Support Center in Fukui
  • Using Google Analytics with jQuery Mobile, 15mins
    06/28, _gaTracker 1st Meeting in Tokyo
  • The iPhone App a web designer made, 15mins
    06/18, Nagoya Android Meetup Vol.2 Titanium Mobile Hands-on, Aichi Institute of Technology in Nagoya
  • Communities of Practice – Histroy of kanazawa.js, 30mins
    04/16, kanazawa.js v1.2, IT Business Plaza Musashi in Ishikawa
  • The iPhone App a web designer made, 15mins
    04/08, WCAF Seminar Vol.6, Fukui Industrial Support Center in Fukui
  • The iPhone App a web designer made, 15mins
    04/03, Untitled!!!!!!!!, Osaka Urban Industry Promotion Center in Osaka

2010

  • Long Life Web Performance Optimization, 40mins
    10/16, WCAF Seminar Vol.4, Fukui Industrial Support Center in Fukui
  • Long Life Web Performance Optimization, 40mins
    09/25, dotcoder session4, Osaka Kensyu Center in Osaka
  • Coding Web Performance, 35mins
    04/17, CSS Nite LP, Disk 9「Coder's Higher」, Bellesalle KANDA in Tokyo

2009