Christopher Ho
Senior Software Engineer at YouTube
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Ho is a Senior Software Engineer in Palo Alto with eight years of experience building production-grade systems at the intersection of C++, probabilistic math, and machine learning. He has led autonomy teams and shipped safety-critical planning and decision-making software for autonomous vehicles and large-scale NLU/LLM infrastructure at companies including Apex.AI, Faraday Future, Google, and YouTube. Comfortable toggling between individual technical contribution and team leadership, he blends rigorous academic research in reinforcement learning and POMDPs with pragmatic engineering for real-time systems. His work spans architecture, implementation, verification, and tooling for production autonomy and trust-and-safety applications, reflecting equal appetite for elegant math and robust engineering. Notably, he has extended core RL algorithms (e.g., POMCP) and applied them at scales with enormous state spaces, a background that informs his approach to LLM infra and safety.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering, 3.82, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering, 3.82 at University of California, Santa BarbaraMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, 3.63, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, 3.63 at Stanford University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (17)
robotics10
autonomous-vehicles10
ros10
autonomous-driving10
meta7
mobility4
re-identification1
openmmlab1
mlp1
object-recognition1
autopilot1
neural-style-transfer1
computer-vision1
raspberry-pi1
multiclass-classification1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
autocore-ai/SDV
Aug 2018 - Jun 2020
Contributions:92 commits in 1 year 10 months
ApexAI/Autoware
Nov 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:3 commits, 1 push, 3 branches in 4 days
mobilityself-drivingopen-source-softwaredrivingurban
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