Emily Hou
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEmily Hou is an engineering leader with 8 years of experience building consumer-facing products and guiding teams from hands-on engineering to successful acquisition. She has led cross-functional organizations at startups and scale-ups—shaping hiring, product development, and culture at Cottage (acquired by RenoFi), Atoms, and Clever—while now managing engineering at DoorDash in the Bay Area. Emily pairs a product-first mindset with deep technical chops, having contributed full‑stack fixes and UX improvements to notable open-source projects like Mozilla Send. She excels at turning user empathy into intuitive, reliable experiences and at aligning teams to metric-driven resiliency and delivery. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic builder who prefers roles where she’s also a product user, and who keeps her DMs open for the right opportunity.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer and Information Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer and Information Science at Cornell University
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
javascript10
front-end-development9
file-handling9
back-end-development8
ui-design8
backend8
audio6
ajax6
authentication6
anaconda6
animation6
angularjs6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
mozilla/send
May 2018 - Aug 2018
Simple, private file sharing from the makers of Firefox
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 13 PRs, 30 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Emily primarily focused on improving the user experience and functionality of the file-sharing application. They addressed bugs related to file downloading and storage, specifically fixing an issue that resulted in files being downloaded as ".part" files. Furthermore, the user refactored and improved the application's architecture by integrating fetch.body and modifying the stream handling of file transfers. The user's contributions also included implementing cancel buttons and improving the UI.
firefoxmakersfile-sharingsharingthunderbird
nwtgck/aes128gcm-stream-npm
Jun 2018 - Jul 2018
🛡128-bit AES-GCM Encryption Stream for Web Browsers
Contributions:4 commits in 12 days
cryptographybrowseraesbrowserssecurity
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