Dexter Hou
Senior Legal Counsel at Tencent
Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China
Summary
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Top SchoolDexter Hou is a senior legal counsel with 13 years’ experience structuring and executing cross-border PE/VC, funds and M&A transactions, currently leading investments and acquisitions work at Tencent. He combines sovereign-wealth and institutional fund experience from Silk Road Fund and Fullerton with in-house tech dealcraft at one of the world’s largest internet companies, giving him deep exposure to primary and secondary fund strategies. Dexter also brings specialist knowledge in OTC derivatives and structured products, having advised on landmark global deals that blend private equity and complex financial instruments. Based in Shenzhen, he uniquely pairs legal strategy with practical technical curiosity—he contributes to open-source media streaming projects on GitHub, including H.264/H.265 playback and Monibuca engine plugins—bringing a developer’s perspective to digital and IP-heavy transactions. Trained in law at Washington University in St. Louis, he is adept at translating intricate regulatory and commercial risk into executable deal structures. Colleagues rely on him for disciplined negotiation, cross-jurisdictional problem solving, and pragmatic governance for high-stakes investments.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Law, Master's degree, Law at Washington University in St. LouisNational University of Singapore
Chinese, English
Github Skills (12)
plugin-development10
h26510
javascript10
go10
mp410
ffmpeg10
mp310
h26410
streaming10
toml10
h5p9
webgl9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Monibuca/engine
Feb 2020 - Jan 2023
Monibuca 核心引擎，包含流媒体核心转发逻辑，需要配合功能插件一起组合运行
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 2 reviews, 347 commits in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Dexter implemented and exported plugins for the Monibuca engine, involving core media streaming and TOML configuration. The user added comments and defined plugin versions, enhancing code maintainability. Furthermore, the changes included code for room management and subscriber implementation, showing a focus on overall media stream processing logic.
rtostomlstreamingmulticore
langhuihui/jessibuca
Feb 2016 - Jun 2022
Jessibuca是一款开源的纯H5直播流播放器
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 131 commits, 12 PRs in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Dexter contributed significantly to the project's H.264 video player. The commits show code changes related to the `Broadway` library, which indicates work on the core video playback functionality. Furthermore, the user appears to have been involved in adding H.265 and MP3 support, expanding the player's capabilities. The commits also include changes to the MonaClient.js file, suggesting involvement in the frontend integration and potentially WebGL rendering of the video.
webglhttp-flvwebrtcwebassemblyh264-h265
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