Summary
Guangyu Hou is a software engineer with nine years of experience, currently building reliable engineering products at MathWorks from Greater Boston. His background blends industry-scale infrastructure work—interning on Google's Global Software Load Balancing team where he engineered a sharded, parallelized emergency config backup—and academic research that produced manufacturing automation and hybrid fabrication software at Iowa State. He holds advanced degrees in industrial engineering and computer science (MS, PhD coursework) and a BS in mechanical engineering, giving him a strong cross-disciplinary toolkit for systems thinking and tooling. Guangyu’s projects emphasize availability, efficiency, and manufacturability, reflecting a habit of turning research prototypes into production-capable solutions. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and action-oriented—aptly summarized by his GitHub motto, "Just do it."
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.96, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.96 at Iowa State University - College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Master of Science - MS, Industrial Engineering, 3.97, Master of Science - MS, Industrial Engineering, 3.97 at Iowa State University
Bachelor of Science (BS), Mechanical Engineering, 3.64, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mechanical Engineering, 3.64 at University of Science and Technology of China
English, Chinese