Dawn Ho
Co-founder at Seam
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDawn Ho is a startup founder and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building connected-product platforms and developer-facing APIs. As Co-founder of Seam and former senior engineer leading IoT at Sonder, she has shipped large-scale distributed access and OTA update systems for thousands of edge devices, and built tooling to automate homes and buildings. Her background spans full-stack product work—from React/Node and Ruby on Rails to Django, PostgreSQL, Docker and embedded Raspberry Pi deployments—paired with hands-on operational documentation and training for field teams. She’s comfortable turning ambiguous hospitality and manufacturing problems into production systems, having also led CNC factory tooling and Web3 smart-contract work. Trained in law and international relations, Dawn brings a multidisciplinary perspective that helps her navigate regulatory, product and operational tradeoffs. Based in San Francisco, she blends founder-level ownership with deep technical execution across hardware-software integrations.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorThe University of Hong Kong (HKU)Bachelor of Arts, International Relations, Bachelor of Arts, International Relations at Stanford University
English, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (63)
wave10
wireless10
zwave10
nodejs9
database8
iot8
visualization8
javascript8
postgresql7
mysql7
dashboard7
typescript7
slack7
data-visualization6
data-analysis6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
science-hack-day/hardware-wiki
Aug 2017 - Feb 2023
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
seamapi/go
Feb 2024 - Oct 2024
Go library for accessing the Seam API
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 3 PRs in 7 months
go-clientgo-sdkgolang
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