Gary Hou
Engineering at Amazon
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGary Hou is a pragmatic software engineer with over a decade of experience building production web services and client-facing features across startups and large tech companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. Currently an engineer at Amazon, he previously advanced payments and platform capabilities at PayPal after engineering roles at GoFundMe, Nimble Pharmacy, and earlier leadership at Shapify. Comfortable in both Java and JavaScript, he has a track record of shipping product-focused solutions that align with PM priorities while making room for technical ideas he’s passionate about. His background in computer engineering and technopreneurship gives him an entrepreneur’s perspective on product trade-offs and system design. Colleagues describe him as direct and no-nonsense about tech conversations—ready to dig into architecture without the fluff.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Computing, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Computing, Computer Engineering at National University of Singapore
English, Chinese, SwedishGithub contributions (5)
hguochen/algorithms
Oct 2013 - Feb 2018
Contributions:657 commits, 485 pushes, 3 comments in 4 years 4 months
hguochen/code
Feb 2018 - Jan 2024
Contributions:257 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years
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