Summary
Binbing Hou is a Senior Software Engineer in distributed systems with 8 years of experience building scalable, cost-efficient storage and data platforms, currently at Netflix after systems-infrastructure work at LinkedIn. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and a strong research pedigree in cloud storage, SSDs, persistent memory, and blockchain-informed decentralized storage, translating measurement-driven insights into production optimizations. Binbing combines academic rigor with hands-on engineering—having developed I/O measurement tools, client-side cost/performance optimizations for S3/EC2/Swift, and benchmarking extensions for BigchainDB—so he routinely bridges experiments and deployable solutions. Based in California, he’s focused on pushing the efficiency and parallelism of storage systems at scale, often spotting system-level opportunities others miss.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science and Technology, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science and Technology at Wuhan University of Technology
Master's Degree, Computer System and Architecture (Persistent Memory, Solid State Drive, Filesystem, RAID), Master's Degree, Computer System and Architecture (Persistent Memory, Solid State Drive, Filesystem, RAID) at Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science (Cloud Storage, Blockchain, Solid State Drives, Persistent Memory, Filesystem), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science (Cloud Storage, Blockchain, Solid State Drives, Persistent Memory, Filesystem) at Louisiana State University