Alpha Ho
Application Engineer
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolAlpha Ho is an application engineer based in Tokyo with 11 years building production software across finance and tech, currently driving work at Rakuten after senior engineering roles at Microsoft and HSBC. He brings deep expertise in Scala, Kotlin and Java, applying Domain-Driven Design, functional programming and continuous delivery to deliver resilient, maintainable systems. His career shows a steady progression from intern to senior and leadership-track roles, reflecting strong delivery and business-facing instincts. Comfortable in large enterprise environments, he pairs pragmatic engineering with business development sensibilities that help translate stakeholder needs into technical outcomes. A South China University of Technology graduate, he blends systems-level thinking with hands-on implementation across backend and platform contexts.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at South China University of Technology
English, mandarine, Chinese
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Github Skills (148)
concurrent-programming10
benchmark10
http10
http-service10
effects10
http-client10
kotlin-library10
concurrency10
avro10
polymorphism10
async10
zio10
editor10
coroutines10
immutability10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
alphaho/zio-http
Mar 2021 - Jul 2025
A scala library to write Http apps.
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
scala-libraryhttp-clientscala
alphaho/http4k
Nov 2019 - Jul 2025
http4k is a "Server as a Function" HTTP toolkit written in Kotlin with a focus on creating simple, testable APIs
Contributions:10 pushes, 7 branches in 5 years 8 months
http4khttp-clientkotlintestablehttp-server
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