Alan Hou
Co-Founder at owow
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlan Hou is a pragmatic engineering leader and founder with 9 years of experience building high-throughput, production-grade systems across startups and Google. As Co-Founder and CTO of OWOW he’s focused on creating a HackerRank-style platform for data annotators, after driving measurable improvements in Google Ads, Google Voice, and earlier startups acquired by SailPoint and Shopify. He’s repeatedly shipped microservices and models that processed thousands of events per second and improved observability and cost/latency metrics, blending research rigor from advanced degrees with hands-on execution. Based in Palo Alto, he balances family life with a coder’s curiosity, bringing both startup grit and large-scale product experience to data and infrastructure challenges.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS Computer Engineering at Duke UniversityBachelor of Engineering - BE Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Beihang UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Washington State UniversityGithub contributions (5)
alanhou7/odoo11-cookbook
Jun 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:13 commits, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
alanhou7/FFmpeg
Nov 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 month
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