Kevin Hu
ゼネラルマネージャー at Rakuten
Chiyoda, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Hu is a seasoned engineering leader with 12+ years of global experience building and scaling software organizations across Japan, the US and Taiwan, currently serving as General Manager at Rakuten overseeing 330 talents across multiple regions. He combines hands-on coding roots with executive strategy—driving product, platform, data engineering, QA and AI initiatives at companies like SmartNews, Amazon and Mozilla. Known for rapidly improving engineering productivity (notably driving multi-fold gains at Solera) and launching cross-regional programs, he balances operational rigor with innovation and holds patents in the US, Taiwan and Japan. Kevin regularly leads multicultural teams, shipping both startup-style features and large-scale enterprise systems while maintaining low turnover and strong delivery metrics. Fluent in Mandarin and English with working Japanese, he leverages deep SDLC, release and release-management expertise alongside product-focused metrics to accelerate business KPIs. An unconventional strength: he still writes code and builds tooling to generate operational insights, bridging strategy and day-to-day engineering practice.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer Science and Information Engineering, 3.88, Master, Computer Science and Information Engineering, 3.88 at National Central UniversityUniversity of California Santa CruzTemasek Junior CollegeStanford University
English, Chinese, taiwanese (hokkien), French, Japanese
Github Skills (27)
branches9
cli9
shell9
zsh8
gaia8
php8
gecko8
javascript7
rails7
bash7
python7
docker7
macos7
homebrew6
cli-app6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kaichih/FxOS-Dashboard
Feb 2014 - Jul 2015
Contributions:38 commits, 3 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 5 months
firefoxmozillamozilla-firefoxdashboard
kaichih/CoronavirusChart
Feb 2020 - Mar 2020
Contributions:23 commits, 9 PRs, 21 pushes in 1 month
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