Kenzo Nakamura is a full-stack design engineer passionate about emerging technologies and product craft.
Frontend-leaning full-stack engineer · Product engineer · Design engineer

- Japan
- United States
Art & design, cooking, geopolitics, sports & exercise.

ArtPop takes photos of the pets, people, places, and things from customer’s lives and delivers personalized, ready-to-hang, gallery-quality art. Architected a full-stack TypeScript system using Next.js, Postgres/Supabase, Drizzle, Inngest, Google Cloud Storage, OpenRouter, Stripe, and Prodigi. Developed a configurable image-generation pipeline with SOA image models. Served hundreds of happy customers.

Architect and engineer of Symple's full-stack SaaS platform from zero to production — designing and building an Express.js backend, a Next.js 14 frontend, and a document processing pipeline orchestrated via AWS Step Functions capable of processing millions of PDF pages. Managed two frontend and two backend engineers.
Designed and built web sites and full-stack V1 apps for makers and companies in the New York City area as well as two projects of my own.

Designed, prototyped, and developed new products & experiences for next-gen ad surfaces for VR/AR, Web3/NFTs, Generative AI, and the web.

Built out BDG's sprawling in-house WYSIWYG CMS, Typeset. Implemented highly detailed magazine-class designs for 13 different internationally recognized brands, such as W Magazine, Nylon, Bustle, and Inverse.

The sole front end dev at an 8 person startup. Took several consumer products from 0 to production. Designed, implemented, tested, maintained, and wrote documentation for all front end properties (social app, developer portal, five React UI node packages) all built with 3Box's core JS SDK and interacting with decentralized protocols Ethereum and IPFS.

Worked as a graduate intern designing and prototyping novel user experiences and interfaces at a tech agency founded by MIT Media Lab Alumni.

Worked under Microsoft Research to design an augmented reality product for the Hololens. Presented to Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington.
Architected UX flows with the department's lead PM, designed pixel perfect interfaces for the HackerRank For Work team in India, organized white-paper designs and crafted ads for the product marketing team.

Worked as a UX/UI & Industrial Designer at IDEO to help ideate on the future of shared mobility services and products. We created a 3D model and several user stories that highlight the results of our research.
- 36bacc0Raise the script budget to 170 kB2026-10-14
- 52dd3f9Add Vercel Web Analytics2026-10-14
- f94d042Call Kenzo a full-stack design engineer in the intro2026-10-14
- 2abf5a2Hide the design-system drawer once it closes2026-10-14
- 1cd6d91Add the footer dot field and a Citizenship card2026-10-14
- 883368eDescribe ArtPop and Symple by what they do2026-10-14