Kenta Kudo
Engineering graduate with 5+ years of Software Engineering experience. I love problem solving, and transforming complicated issues into simple solutions. I am a logical thinker, diligent, curious, and collaborative. I am increasingly interested in frontend technology and its impact.
Experience
Software Engineer
Utility Warehouse
April 2019 – Present
As a member of the payment platform team, rewriting the legacy system to the new system which is scalable and maintainable with a user-friendly interface using the latest tech stack such as microservices in Go and Kubernetes is my main focus. Making the system regulation compliant is also our responsibility.
Junior Backend Engineer
Mercari UK
December 2016 – March 2019
My main responsibility was to add features and functions to the large user-base applications communicating with PMs to make a consumer facing app that grows in the area. I made myself an expert of a PHP and Go developer using GCP platform with OOP and TDD practices.
iOS Engineer
Smart Tech Ventures
May 2015 – March 2017
I developed the e-commerce app using MVC architecture in Swift and Objective-C. I also wrote and created from scratch a healthcare application introducing MVVM architecture and Reactive Programming.
Education
University of Tokyo
Bachelor of Engineering
April 2011 – March 2015
Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
Skills
Language
- Go – Advanced Level
- PHP – Advanced Level
- Swift – Advanced Level
- Python – Intermediate Level
- JavaScript – Intermediate Level
Tools
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- GCP
- Apache Kafka
- MySQL
Practices
- Object-Oriented Programming
- Test-Driven Development
- Event-Driven Architecture
- microservices
- Design Pattern
Others
- Machine Learning
- System Programming
Awards & Certifications
- Coursera: Machine Learning
- Diploma: Project DL4US (Deep Learning for All of Us)
- Design Lab: Design 101