Satoe
Sakuma

After years of building tools for clinicians, I came to study the system itself. Focused on health policy and how technology can make care both better and more equitable.

Joined as the second engineer with a mission to fix healthcare. Grew with the company to engineering director, building and leading teams that worked alongside clinicians to deliver convenient, continuous care that is twice as good for half the cost.

Optimized last-mile delivery for big stuff (sofas, mattresses, the works). Built tools for third-party carriers to feed truck inventory into the routing algorithm, measurably improving delivery efficiency.

A summer spent on a battery-research team, as the only software engineer in a room of chemists. Built a platform for visualizing experimental data and ran more digital experiments than I can count. Crash-coursed crystallography. Fell briefly in love with WebGL.

Magna Cum Laude with a double major because picking one felt unnecessary. Two years away from formal school beforehand gave me the clarity to study what I actually cared about, and a soft spot for women-in-tech advocacy.

A year fundraising in the US and traveling to Japan for tsunami relief. Trudging through rejections on the street and finding gratitude in the mundane taught me resilience—and that bringing joy to those less fortunate is worth the effort.

Three years at IMSA—my first time living away from home. Where I learned to love dance, got involved in leadership development, fell in love with philosophy, and found a community that encouraged me to embrace my nerdiness.