# Kento Y.

> Software Engineer | ex-Yahoo, CyberAgent, Workato | USC'23

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kentoy

Languages: Python, Java, C, C++, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, TypeScript, Swift, SQL
Technologies: Angular, Node.js, Flask, React, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), MySQL, Docker, Kubernetes, Git

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Polaris Wireless
Jan 2023 – Present | Santa Clara, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Prosimo.io
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023

### Software Engineer @ Prosimo.io
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022
• Standardized regression testing for the transit analytics page with Jenkins by replicating the production environment and creating procedures to test the application’s behavior and characteristics
• Wrote test scripts using Python to integrate all backend components (Kafka, Dataflow, Cloud Storage, and Elasticsearch) into a single program for simulating production-equivalent environment scenarios 
• Expedited the cloud analytics feature launch into production by reporting over 17 bug tickets (out of 32 tickets) from May to August by following through with the bug fixes

### Software Engineer @ CyberAgent, Inc.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
AI tech studio | Kiwami Yosoku AI (Vertex Prediction AI)
· Implemented preprocessor, trainer and predictor API for estimating the quality of google responsive display ads based on delivery settings, description and images with TensorFlow, Docker, Kubernetes and GCP
· Developed automatic weekly model update system for delivering real-time score prediction which reflects recent advertising trends using Airflow

### Solutions Consultant @ Workato
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
・Work closely with enterprise clients for integrating applications and automating business process on Workato's platform with various APIs

### Software Engineer @ Yahoo! JAPAN
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
· Created a prototype of real-time page-view ranking system of Yahoo! Japan News with Apache Kafka, Java Springboot and MySQL
·  Received a high evaluation as my prototype has a potential to be easily applied to other Yahoo! Japan services as well as Yahoo! Japan News real-time ranking system

### Teaching Assistant @ Waseda University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
· Worked as a TA for Introduction to Computer Programming
· Held office hours for computer programming classes and used different teaching approaches to explain different concepts to the students

### Data Scientist @ Collabit inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Tokyo, Japan
· Developed and validated an effective predictive model for housing price with a regularized linear regression model to promote fair trade in real estate with Python
· Designed and built a RESTful API which returns predictions from the machine learning model with Flask

### Full Stack Web Developer @ Cardinal Consulting International Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Cupertino, California, United States
[Education and Business Link, Inc.]
Developed a networking and communication platform to improve communication between a company and its clients with Ruby on Rails and MySQL


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
University of Southern California
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023

### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
Waseda University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science - Exchange Student
San Francisco State University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-29