Founded last year and with clients in Honolulu, Tokyo, and around the world, we specialize in design of web applications with a focus on improving user-experience to transparently promote client goals, through elegant, effective, and eminently usable websites. We make usable websites and make websites usable.

We can deliver the tools needed to drive business, maximize profit and ROI, reduce barriers to entry for potential customers, and project a powerful presence on the Web. As young entrepreneurs who have grown up with the technologies of the Web, our age and experience uniquely positions us to offer insight and hands-on experience in ways that others can’t.

Founded in 2005 by Cody Robbins, Sakuzaku was initially a single-person web development firm based in upstate New York and offering contract development work to a small number of core clients. Since then, its client base has grown exponentially. In late 2005, Mr Robbins moved the business to Honolulu to take advantage of the growth potential latent in Hawaii’s central location between Silicon Valley and Japan.

In 2007, Mr McVickar joined the company to bring our clients much-needed expertise in usability engineering and user-centered design. Messrs Robbins and McVickar attended high school together and have been working together since 2000. In total, they have almost 20 years experience working with developing software that runs on the Web.

Cody Robbins
Principal and Founder

Cody Robbins is responsible for overseeing the technical details of all projects and ensuring the quality of client deliverables. He has over 10 years experience developing, deploying, and supporting software, and working with all aspects of modern Web technologies. He has lead the production of multi-million dollar mission-critical software systems for SNS’s and e-commerce solutions for clients in Ruby on Rails, PHP, and MySQL. A consummate pragmatist–perfectionist, he can view difficult problems from a multi-faceted perspective that balances conceptual simplicity and technological requirements with pragmatic constraints and business goals, all with an unerring attention to detail.

Mr Robbins is multilingual in Spanish, Japanese, and German. He is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a Bachelor of Science degree cum laude in computer science. He is pursuing a Master of Science in computational linguistics at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.