Summary
Kota Ura is a bilingual (Japanese/English) product consultant and technical product manager with 11 years of experience building and launching digital products across startups and enterprise environments in Tokyo. He has led product strategy and delivery at companies including S&P Global, Omise, and Wise, blending hands-on technical understanding with localization and business consulting. Comfortable translating between engineering, design, and business stakeholders, he focuses on pragmatic solutions that scale and create societal impact. Beyond product work he has a developer's curiosity—describing himself on GitHub as a “Universal Serial Bus driver” who bridges communications between systems. Outside of work he pursues powerlifting to world-class levels (510kg total in the 74kg class), a discipline that informs his goal-oriented, data-driven approach to product challenges.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Database & Data Analytics, Database & Data Analytics at UCSC Silicon Valley Extension
Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at Kanagawa University
Japanese, English