Carbo Kuo
Staff Software Engineer at Google
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCarbo Kuo is a Staff Software Engineer at Google with 16 years of experience building large-scale systems across Android, Gboard, Search, and Assistant. He combines deep backend engineering—optimizing data structures and encoding/locale tooling—with product-focused work on real-time indexing and mobile input features. A longtime open-source contributor, he has improved Chinese text conversion accuracy and performance in OpenCC and helped harden encoding detection in uchardet, reflecting a practical attention to internationalization. His background includes internships at Facebook, Microsoft Research Asia, Hulu, and a CS degree from Tsinghua, giving him broad exposure to distributed systems, recommendation engines, and developer tooling. Colleagues appreciate that he pairs low-level performance tuning with shipping user-facing features at scale.
16 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Winter School Certificate, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Winter School Certificate, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Tsinghua UniversityHenan Experimental High School
Chinese, English, Japanese
Github Skills (26)
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javas10
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
BYVoid/OpenCC
Jul 2010 - Oct 2021
Conversion between Traditional and Simplified Chinese
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 11 reviews, 728 commits in 11 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Carbo's commits primarily focused on modifying code related to dictionary tools for Traditional and Simplified Chinese conversion. The changes include the addition of features for more accurate string matching, supporting multi-value dictionary entries, and improving the overall performance of the conversion process by optimizing various data structures, such as the implementation of a DartsDict. These changes suggest a focus on improving the core functionality and efficiency of the text conversion capabilities of the project.
chinesechinese-simplifiedtraditionalchinese-translationtranslation
BYVoid/uchardet
Jul 2011 - Jul 2020
An encoding detector library ported from Mozilla
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 7 PRs, 8 pushes in 9 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Carbo primarily contributed to the encoding detector library, focusing on API documentation and implementation details. They added comprehensive comments to the interface definition and refined the `uchardet.h` file. Furthermore, the user implemented a command-line interface and updated the contributor information. Additionally, they updated the code from the upstream and made changes in release and debug scripts.
mozilladetectorencoding
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