Ken Hibino
Software Engineer at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKen Hibino is a software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building scalable systems at Google from Mountain View. He combines back-end expertise in Go—demonstrated by reliability improvements to the asynq distributed task queue—with front-end work enhancing UX in the asynqmon web UI. Prior roles at Fountain and internships gave him full-stack chops, including a Rails-based Medium clone with authentication, testing, and polished UI touches. Ken excels at cross-functional collaboration with designers and product teams and learns new technologies quickly to move projects forward. His open-source contributions show attention to operational correctness (atomic task handling and serialization fixes) as well as practical UX improvements like queue controls and scheduler views. He holds computer science degrees from SUNY Plattsburgh and coursework at The University of Tokyo, reflecting a broad technical foundation.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
University of TokyoBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at State University of New York College at Plattsburgh
English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
31reputation
867reached
3answers
2questions
Github Skills (31)
javascript10
redis10
css10
rails10
user-interface10
material-ui10
graphical-user-interface10
human-interface10
go10
front-end-development10
html10
task-queue10
ruby-on-rails10
react10
bootstrap9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
hibiken/asynq
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
Simple, reliable, and efficient distributed task queue in Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:29 releases, 50 reviews, 817 commits in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Ken's commits primarily focused on modifying the core functionality of the asynq distributed task queue in Go. The main contribution was modifying the (*RDB).Kill method to atomically move tasks from the in-progress to the dead queue, enhancing the reliability of task management. Additional modifications included the removal of the (*RDB).RetryLater method in favor of the Retry method, and fixing the serialization of the task messages to resolve compatibility issues.
golangdistributedworker-poolredisbackground-jobs
hibiken/stories
Dec 2015 - Mar 2017
Medium clone built with Ruby on Rails
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:541 commits, 12 PRs, 279 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Ken primarily focused on implementing features for the Medium clone built with Ruby on Rails, including the ability for users to create posts and view a dashboard. They also added essential testing with user stories for feature verification. Additionally, they integrated Devise for user authentication and added styling and animations using Bootstrap and CSS for a more refined user interface.
ruby-on-railsrailsrubyruby-onmedium
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