Sota Mikami
Currently a Product Designer at CUSTA, a Southeast Asian platform for custom-order manufacturing — focused on shaping the product experience.
Before that, PM, Designer, and AI Automation Architect at mikan — building B2B products for junior high schools, high schools, and cram schools on top of an English learning app with 10M+ downloads, and running the company's AI automation infrastructure on n8n. Earlier, UX & DesignOps Manager at Manabie for a 300-person product team, and Atrae as Growth Designer.
On the side, I built Verba — a macOS voice input app running entirely on-device with WhisperKit + MLX. I write about product, design, and automation.
Work
Project
VerbaOn-device voice input for macOS
YouTube automationAutomated video pipeline with n8n + Remotion — zero manual editing
Stack
DesignFigma, Claude Code, Pencil, Paper
CollaborateNotion, Slack, Linear
Automaten8n, Zapier, Make
ShipHetzner, Coolify, GitHub Actions
Writing
I stopped "recreating" AI designs and decided to prototype with production code2026Building a design environment around Claude Code to speed up development2026How one person's obsession drove n8n adoption across mikan2026Naming conventions for Figma design files2024
All posts on note.com(Written in Japanese)
Get in touch
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