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Sazokashi Digital Studio

Sazokashi is a digital product studio by Pragmatic Technologies, LLC.

Based in Incheon, South Korea and Las Vegas, Nevada.

Specializing in scalable web and native mobile solutions with an emphasis on modern tools.

Location

Experience

8+years in software engineering

Pragmatic Technologies

Full-Stack Developer · 2023 – Present

Multi-client delivery

Supplyframe (Siemens)

Full-Stack Engineer · 2019 – 2023

B2B SaaS for Meta, TI, Garmin

Caltech – Van Valen Labs

Software Engineer · 2018 – 2019

Published in Nature Methods

YoyoChinese.com

Full-Stack Developer · 2018 – 2019

138% revenue increase

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Tech stack

Tech stacks I'm familiar with

Primarily focused on the JavaScript Node.js ecosystem, AWS, Google Cloud, Docker, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Python, and Golang.

Impact

138%

Revenue increase at YoyoChinese

1000s

Engineers using products built at Supplyframe

Nature

Published in Nature Methods (Caltech)

Languages

EnglishNative
PortugueseFluent
KoreanConversational
SpanishConversational
JapaneseConversational

Projects

Milestones in our customer solutions

Each project is a new relationship with a trusting client.
Explore how we are leveraging the latest in web technologies to create new business system solutions.

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Blog

Learning, Building, and
Documenting

Insights and experiences from our journey as developers, small business owners, and martial artists—exploring ideas,
overcoming challenges, and sharing lessons learned along the way.

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A Comprehensive Testing Strategy: Unit, End-to-End, and Load Testing
March 18, 2025•7 min read

A Comprehensive Testing Strategy: Unit, End-to-End, and Load Testing

How to build a practical testing pyramid with isolated unit tests, seeded end-to-end flows, and load testing that enforces performance thresholds before release.

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  • testing
  • playwright
  • jest
  • performance
Cost-Safe Security Hardening for Public Edge Deployments
April 4, 2026•7 min read

Cost-Safe Security Hardening for Public Edge Deployments

A practical look at how to reduce bot abuse, limit cost-amplification risk, and add emergency shutdown controls to a public web deployment without overcomplicating the stack.

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  • security
  • devops
  • vercel
  • web
Defense in Depth: Layered Rate Limiting and Security Hardening for Production APIs
February 25, 2025•3 min read

Defense in Depth: Layered Rate Limiting and Security Hardening for Production APIs

How to combine edge filtering, reverse proxy controls, application rate limiting, request sanitization, CSRF protection, challenge-based bot checks, and safe logging into a practical layered defense model.

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  • security
  • node.js
  • devops
Containerizing the Application Layer with Docker and Compose
December 12, 2024•4 min read

Containerizing the Application Layer with Docker and Compose

A practical breakdown of multi-container application design, network segmentation, health checks, resource limits, and environment-aware Compose workflows.

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  • docker
  • docker-compose
Railway-Oriented Programming and Functional Pipeline Composition in Node.js
January 15, 2025•3 min read

Railway-Oriented Programming and Functional Pipeline Composition in Node.js

How composable sync and async pipelines can replace long imperative route handlers, improve testability, and make server-side flows easier to reason about.

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  • node.js
  • functional-programming
  • typescript
  • architecture
In-Memory Caching and Strategic Denormalization for Document Database Performance
February 10, 2025•4 min read

In-Memory Caching and Strategic Denormalization for Document Database Performance

How to combine startup-time lookup maps, denormalized visibility flags, cache invalidation, and aggregation pipelines to remove expensive joins from hot API paths.

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  • mongodb
  • caching
  • performance
  • architecture
Multi-Currency Payment Architecture for Subscriptions and One-Time Purchases
March 15, 2025•4 min read

Multi-Currency Payment Architecture for Subscriptions and One-Time Purchases

How to design a payment system that handles multiple currencies, recurring and one-time plans, entitlement updates, caching, and operational safety around live billing.

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  • payments
  • node.js
  • architecture
Why Nginx Still Matters in Multi-Container Deployments
April 4, 2026•12 min read

Why Nginx Still Matters in Multi-Container Deployments

A practical guide to using Nginx as a reverse proxy in a multi-container architecture to reduce public attack surface, isolate services, and enforce HTTP policy before requests reach application code.

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  • nginx
  • docker
  • devops
  • security
Building a Custom OAuth2 Server with Cookie and Header-Based Authentication
January 28, 2025•4 min read

Building a Custom OAuth2 Server with Cookie and Header-Based Authentication

How to implement a custom OAuth2 storage model, scope-based access control, browser/mobile authentication strategies, and CSRF protection without relying on a hosted auth vendor.

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  • oauth2
  • security
  • node.js
  • authentication
Security Response Headers That Actually Matter
April 5, 2026•10 min read

Security Response Headers That Actually Matter

A beginner-friendly guide to the browser security headers worth knowing, what each one does, why they matter, and how they work together in a production web app.

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  • security
  • nginx
  • web
  • devops
Self-Hosted CI/CD, Container Orchestration, and Zero-Downtime Deployment
March 10, 2025•3 min read

Self-Hosted CI/CD, Container Orchestration, and Zero-Downtime Deployment

How to build a self-hosted deployment pipeline with dedicated runners, isolated end-to-end environments, multi-stage container builds, backup automation, and safer production releases.

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  • devops
  • docker
  • ci-cd
SSL Termination, Cloudflare, and Why a Second TLS Hop Is Worth It
April 5, 2026•13 min read

SSL Termination, Cloudflare, and Why a Second TLS Hop Is Worth It

A beginner-friendly guide to using Cloudflare in front of a custom Nginx server with TLS on both hops, real client IP restoration, and safer origin protection.

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  • cloudflare
  • nginx
  • security
  • devops
Tokenized Video Embeds and Basic Anti-Piracy Controls for Streaming Applications
December 12, 2024•3 min read

Tokenized Video Embeds and Basic Anti-Piracy Controls for Streaming Applications

How expiring embed tokens, playback authorization, and lightweight DRM-style controls can raise the cost of casual video theft without pretending piracy can be eliminated entirely.

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  • streaming
  • security
  • javascript