Andrew Hou
Senior Cyber Technical Associate
Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Hou is a cybersecurity-focused software engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building secure systems and tooling, currently advancing Capital One’s CryptoServices team. He blends strong academic grounding in computer science and mathematics from Purdue with practical experience modernizing PGP key management, building AWS-native key retrieval APIs, and researching post-quantum cryptography suitability for legacy email encryption. Comfortable across cloud services (S3, DynamoDB, Lambda), observability tooling, and incident response, he has moved between analytics-driven SOC support and applied crypto engineering. Early roles—from vulnerability research at Northrop Grumman to teaching algorithms and leading robotics control systems—reflect a mix of rigorous problem solving, mentorship, and systems-level thinking. Notably, he pairs production-grade implementation with customer outreach and migration leadership, helping translate security research into operational improvements.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.68 / 4.0, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.68 / 4.0 at Purdue UniversityUniversity of Minnesota Twin CitiesGeneral Studies, General Studies at Edina Senior High School
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (36)
minecraft10
ubuntu10
chroot10
chromiumos10
wpilib9
userscripts9
debian9
linux9
robot9
reddit9
crouton9
chromeos9
shell9
algorithms8
algorithm8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
TheGreenMachine/zBob
Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:261 commits, 14 PRs, 188 pushes in 11 months
pythonpowerpower-uprobot
andrewfhou/dotfiles
Nov 2019 - Sep 2024
Various config files for my laptop software
Contributions:2 PRs, 62 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 10 months
configstowrangerdotfilesconfig-files
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