Kento Okamoto
Software Engineer at Headway
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolKento Okamoto is a software engineer with a decade of experience building full-stack and backend systems using Python, C++, and JavaScript/TypeScript. He has shipped production software across startups and large companies—from networking firmware leadership at Arista to backend work at Lithic and product-focused roles at Splunk and Barn2Door. Comfortable in both systems-level C++ and high-velocity web stacks, he blends rigorous engineering with practical product sensibility. He also has teaching experience in C++ fundamentals from his time instructing at Colorado School of Mines, which informs his clear coding and mentoring style. Based in Seattle with a Master’s in Computer Science, he brings a pragmatic, cross-domain approach to solving performance and reliability challenges.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Colorado School of Mines
English, Japanese
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Github Skills (43)
ripgrep10
libgit210
matrix10
gitignore10
regex10
grep10
pattern10
matrix-org10
stdin10
directories10
command-line10
text-search10
command-line-tool10
homeserver10
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Kentokamoto/dots
May 2016 - Feb 2025
Contributions:123 pushes, 6 branches in 8 years 10 months
Kentokamoto/kentokamoto.github.io
Feb 2020 - Feb 2025
Contributions:1 release, 82 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years
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