Summary
Colin Ho is a founding engineer and systems-focused software developer with four years of experience building high-performance, scalable data platforms. Currently at Eventual (and building Daft), he designs distributed query engines for multimodal data and AI, blending low-latency systems work with practical product shipping. His background spans fintech and crypto (Stripe, Coinbase), climate-tech (CarbonLink), and developer mentorship at USC’s LavaLab, giving him a rare mix of production engineering and startup incubation experience. A former infantry lieutenant in the Singapore Armed Forces, he brings discipline and operational rigor to distributed systems design. Based in San Francisco, he favors pragmatic, performance-first architectures that scale across modalities and real-world workloads.
4 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Southern California
Canadian Academy
IB Diploma, IB Diploma at Shanghai American School
English, Chinese, Japanese