Gaku Ueda
Co-founder & CEO at MODE, Inc.
Los Altos, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorGaku Ueda is a seasoned software leader and startup founder with 17 years of experience building and scaling engineering teams and products. As Co-founder and CEO of MODE, Inc., he helps businesses collect data from the physical world while translating engineers' ideas into shipped products. Previously he led engineering at Google and served as Director of Engineering at Twitter, bringing deep experience in productization and international growth. He combines hands-on backend contributions—such as bug fixes and localization work on the rubycas SSO project—with strategic leadership across large consumer platforms. Based in Los Altos, he pairs operator grit with a developer’s attention to detail, often stepping into code to unblock teams. Colleagues credit him for turning technical visions into practical, customer-facing systems.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Japanese
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Github Skills (14)
ruby10
user-authentication10
authentication10
localization9
css8
android-studio6
nodejs6
go6
javascript6
beego6
controller6
android6
angularjs6
gradle6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
rubycas/rubycas-server
Feb 2009 - Dec 2009
Provides single sign-on authentication for web applications, implementing the server-end of Jasig's CAS protocol.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:13 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Gaku primarily contributed to the backend of the `rubycas-server` project, focusing on bug fixes and minor feature enhancements. They addressed authentication failures related to missing salts and corrected issues with localization, ensuring the correct language UI was displayed. Additionally, they modified the CSS for the simple theme to improve its appearance. Their contributions also included merging branches.
web-applicationssignsingle-sign-onauthenticationsign-on
gaku/infinite-scrollable-calendar
Sep 2013 - Oct 2013
Contributions:15 commits in 1 month
calendarangular-jsscrollabledirectiveangular
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