Sota Mikami

PM, Designer, and AI Automation Architect at mikan — building B2B products for language schools and cram schools, powered by an English learning app with 10M+ downloads. Running the company's AI automation infrastructure on n8n.

Previously UX & DesignOps Manager at Manabie for a 300-person product team, and Atrae as Growth Designer — data analysis, scrum mastering, and design in one role. Joined an ed-tech student venture building learning programs for school field trips.

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

2023 —
PM / Designer / AI Automation Architect, mikan
2021 – 2023
UX & DesignOps Manager, Manabie
2019 – 2021
Growth Designer, Atrae
2019
Designer, freecracy
2015 – 2017
Founding Member, Gachiyun

Project

VerbaOn-device voice input for macOS
YouTube automationAutomated video pipeline with n8n + Remotion — zero manual editing

Stack

BuildTypeScript, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Swift
DataSupabase, PostgreSQL
Automaten8n, Claude Code, Claude API
DesignFigma, Pencil
ShipHetzner, Coolify, GitHub Actions

Writing

All posts on note.com(Written in Japanese)

Get in touch

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