# Kenneth Ota

> Software Engineer at Google

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kenneth

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | Mountain View, California, United States
Videos in Search

### Software Engineer @ Instacart
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
Fulfillment Pickup Team
Fulfillment Platform

### Software Engineer @ Uber
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Engineer on Core Earnings Experience
Engineer on the Web Content Platform team (uber.com):
Uber.com rebrand, fare estimator (uber.com/fare-estimate/)
CMS tool for managing uber.com content at city-specific, country-specific, and global levels (uber.com/es-MX/drive/mexico-city/, uber.com/drive/chicago/)
Bulk-generated, SEO-optimized To/From pages (uber.com/fare-estimate/downtown-to-california-academy-of-sciences/)
Uber.com legal site, backed by Github as a CMS (uber.com/legal/)
i18n Data Scalability

### Web Developer Intern @ LinkedIn
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Mountain View, California
Implemented a reusable suggestions flow, the removing schools flow, and various UI components,
in-app ads, and a ton of bug fixes for the Decision Boards feature on the Higher Education Team.

### CS 225 (Data Structures) Course Staff @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Lead lab sections, hold office hours, explain concepts to students: linked lists, stacks, queues, trees, heaps, disjoint sets, hash tables, graph theory (BFS, DFS, Dijkstra's, Prim's), C++, runtime analysis, etc.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Blue Jeans Network
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Mountain View, California
Software Engineering Intern:
- Designed and developed an analytics web application in Express.js, for internal use
- Built a flexible event timeline visualization tool using D3.js
- Built an analytics dashboard with sortable graph widgets, using jQuery UI


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015

### High School Diploma
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Jan 2008 – Jan 2011


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kennygwang

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Last updated: 2026-03-22