Hikaru Watanabe
Software Engineer at Google
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolHikaru Watanabe is a software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in iOS and mobile app development, currently contributing to Google from the Greater Seattle area. He blends startup grit—co-founding Footsketch and shipping React Native products—with enterprise-scale engineering learned at Google and prior mobile roles. His background includes end-to-end iOS development from student projects at the University of Wisconsin–Madison to commercial apps at TT Network Integration, showing a deep practical command of the mobile stack. Known for moving between native and cross-platform approaches, he brings a pragmatic focus on shipping polished user experiences and scaling mobile codebases.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
English, Japanese, Korean
Github Skills (10)
activemodel10
rails8
bitemporal8
data-model8
ruby-on-rails8
ruby7
activerecord6
react3
javascript1
jquery1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lighty/dotfiles
Aug 2017 - Apr 2024
Contributions:29 pushes in 6 years 9 months
lighty/oas_divider
Jun 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:7 commits, 7 pushes in 9 months
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