Koji Ashida
Software Engineer at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKoji Ashida is a seasoned software engineer with 13+ years building graphics, mobile, and cloud services, currently contributing to Google projects including Search AutoComplete backend C++ and Android tech leadership for Google Photos. He combines deep academic training—a PhD in Computer Graphics—with practical experience from NVIDIA and Turbolinux, focusing on OpenGL ES, embedded platforms, and content-creation tooling. Fluent in C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Perl, and Ruby, he moves comfortably between server-side systems and client apps while also evangelizing engineering practices across languages and cultures. Based in Mountain View and fluent in English, Japanese, and Chinese, he brings rare cross-cultural developer relations experience from partnerships with East Asian game studios. A quietly interdisciplinary engineer, he pairs research-grade graphics expertise with production-scale cloud and mobile engineering.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at New York UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Graphics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Graphics at University of Pennsylvania
Japanese
Github Skills (10)
front-end-development10
angularjs10
bootstrap9
javascript9
bootstra9
html9
css9
typescript-types5
typescripts5
typescript5
Github contributions (3)
kashida/ir2js
Mar 2013 - Sep 2014
Contributions:216 commits in 1 year 6 months
aldeka/oppia
Oct 2013 - Apr 2014
Contributions:71 commits in 6 months
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