Michael Nakayama

2026

Raina AI teaching assistant

Rebuilt MagicSchool's AI teaching assistant as a tool-calling agent and rolled it out to all production traffic.

conversations / week

1.1M

of traffic, zero rollbacks

100%

tools callable from chat

100+

2025–2026

Studio Mode

Designed and built, on my own, the collaborative document workspace inside Raina where teachers generate and edit lesson plans, worksheets, and other classroom documents.

documents / school day

70K+

assistant turns create or edit a doc

1 in 4

2026

Search chat threads

Led full-text search across teachers' entire chat history from technical spec to production, on plain Postgres instead of an LLM pipeline.

threads indexed

18M

new threads / day

~41K

2025

Data Analysis Tool & platform

Took a conversational data-analysis product from zero to launch and prototyped the agent infrastructure the 2026 work built on.

One of the first engineers; built an ML forecasting product that signed three customers in its first month.

revenue in month one

$100K+

of records synced to CRMs

Millions

Scaled the event platform behind restaurant ordering and built a customer reporting engine on top of it.

events / day

1M+

throughput increase

5x

data points kept accurate daily

300K+

Led a church-management platform from design to production and managed the team building it.

churches on the platform

100+

direct reports

4–8