David Kou
Associate Director, Head Of Mobile Engineering
Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China
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Top SchoolDavid Kou is an experienced mobile and software engineering leader based in Hong Kong with 14+ years building large-scale mobile, backend and real-time systems across finance, healthcare and gaming. As Associate Director and Head of Mobile Engineering at firms including Amplify Health, AIA and J.P. Morgan Asset Management, he combines hands-on architecture and cross-platform development (Unity3D, Android, iOS, Xamarin, React Native) with proven delivery practices in CI/CD, DevOps and Agile. He has led teams of 20+ engineers, orchestrated complex distributed systems (WebSocket, RabbitMQ, Redis) and driven dramatic codebase cleanups and performance improvements for high-concurrency apps. A PhD-trained researcher and former university researcher, he blends academic rigor in graphics and CAD with pragmatic product leadership and mentoring. Outside of the office he’s a highly ranked StackOverflow contributor and runs a technical blog with over a million hits, reflecting a strong commitment to community knowledge-sharing. Known for turning research-grade prototypes into production products, he thrives on solving real-time, performance-critical engineering challenges.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Philosophy (MPhil) Precision Measuring Technology, Master of Philosophy (MPhil) Precision Measuring Technology at Tianjin UniversityThe University of Hong Kong (HKU)
English, Chinese, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
hkusoft/SharpDemos
Dec 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:21 commits in 5 days
hkusoft/Use-Android-Inside-Unity
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:12 commits in 2 days
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