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.
11 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 (18)
ruby10
jekyll10
yaml10
music10
adafruit9
minecraft9
github-pages9
makecode7
blockly7
experiment6
javascript6
editor5
typescript5
google-docs5
google-api3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ukkari/NewsWatch
Mar 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch, 2 comments in 1 month
ukkari/musicblocks-electron
Sep 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch, 7 issues in 6 months
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