Kenneth Nevarez
Solutions Engineer at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKenneth Nevarez is a Solutions Engineer in Mountain View with 10 years of experience building and scaling developer-focused products at Google, where he has held roles spanning solutions engineering, customer engineering, program management, and product-focused business development for Google Maps and Cloud. He blends deep technical roots—Princeton BSE in Computer Science and early Unix/Linux systems and software configuration work—with an MBA-level business perspective from Berkeley/Columbia, enabling him to translate customer needs into pragmatic technical programs. Kenneth has hands-on backend development experience in notable open-source projects, contributing Geolocation API support to the widely used google-maps-services-java client library and applying builder patterns and tests to improve maintainability. At Google he has moved between prototyping MVPs, operational program leadership for Maps, and platform-focused customer engineering, showing comfort across strategy, delivery, and technical implementation. He’s adept at turning complex data- and location-based problems into scalable solutions and brings an operator’s discipline from content and compute farm architectures to cloud platform integrations. Colleagues rely on him for bridging product, engineering, and customer outcomes with a practical, test-driven approach.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, Business, MBA, Business at Columbia Business SchoolMBA, Business, MBA, Business at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of BusinessSanta Clara High SchoolBSE, Computer Science, BSE, Computer Science at Princeton University
Github Skills (9)
javas10
geo10
client-library10
api10
geolocator10
apidoc10
java10
geolocation10
testing9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
googlemaps/google-maps-services-java
Jun 2016 - Sep 2016
Java client library for Google Maps API Web Services
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 7 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Kenneth primarily contributed to the implementation of the Geolocation API within the Google Maps Services Java library. Their work involved adding support for the Geolocation API call, including creating the necessary Java classes for handling requests and responses. The commits also include the addition of a test case demonstrating the usage of the Geolocation API, with example data points. Furthermore, the user modified the existing codebase to incorporate the new API functionality and implemented builder patterns for increased code clarity.
google-maps-apijavawebserviceclient-library
kwnevarez/react-google-maps
May 2024 - Jul 2025
React components and hooks for the Google Maps Platform
Contributions:9 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 2 months
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