Summary
Kenta H is a Senior Software Engineer at Google Pay Transit with over 10 years of experience delivering distributed systems and mobile-first payments solutions. He currently drives transit functionality in the Google Pay app, implementing client features in Android Java and Flutter Dart and managing both relational and non-relational data across partner integrations with transit agencies and tech vendors. Earlier at Google, he built scalable WebApps and data pipelines for advertisers, including an ETL workflow handling 100k+ records daily and a unit testing framework that doubled test coverage. His background spans REST APIs in C#/.NET and C++, front-end validation, and cloud-native tools like App Engine, BigQuery, and TensorFlow, showing a broad, data-driven full-stack capability. An early researcher who worked on graph algorithms and Eclipse visualization, he blends academic rigor with practical production engineering and is based in Oakland, California.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer