Yu Ukai
Senior Product Manager at Google
Greater Tokyo Area Japan
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Top SchoolYu Ukai is a Senior Product Manager at Google with 11 years of experience building user-centered, research-driven products across Search, Travel, and education. He led Japan-focused Real World Journeys initiatives to help users make confident hotel and restaurant choices and previously launched deeply localized CS First experiences for constrained devices across APAC. Before Google he drove nationwide K–12 programming policy and curricula in Japan—co-creating autonomous-driving education with Toyota, Nissan, and Honda—and shipped consumer hits at Microsoft including Office Lens and Minecraft educational integrations. Yu combines strengths in customer-back product strategy, ML/GenAI evaluation and prompt design, and Japan GTM/localization to bridge policy, research, and product execution. He is particularly interested in human-in-the-loop systems and behavior/model evaluation, reflecting a consistent focus on making complex AI and mobility concepts practical and teachable.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of TokyoAoyama Gakuin Senior High SchoolMA Computing in Education, EDUCATION, MA Computing in Education, EDUCATION at King's College LondonBachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Network, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Network at 慶応義塾大学 / Keio University
Japanese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
music10
jekyll10
yaml10
ruby10
github-pages9
adafruit8
minecraft8
makecode7
blockly7
javascript5
typescript4
editor3
teachable-machine3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ukkari/taikenmura
Apr 2025 - Jul 2026
Contributions:251 PRs, 816 pushes, 208 branches in 1 year 3 months
ukkari/NewsWatch
Mar 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch, 2 comments in 1 month
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