Summary
Hermes Ko is a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer with nine years of experience building and productionizing high-throughput financial systems and customer-facing features at firms like Capital One and JPMorgan Chase. He currently drives Overdraft features across web and mobile using Node.js, React, Angular and AWS, and has deep backend experience with Java, Spring Boot, microservices and containerized deployments. At Chase he helped transform a proof-of-concept API into the production-grade FDX platform, improved test coverage from 0% to 90%, and supported mission-critical SOAP APIs handling millions of daily requests. Comfortable across the full stack and the cloud, he pairs hands-on coding with mentoring and on-call production support experience. He brings an engineer’s attention to automation and performance—evident from past work reducing execution times and automating tooling for complex systems—and is motivated to bridge hardware and software knowledge to deliver reliable, scalable products.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Brooklyn Technical High School
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, 3.523, Magna Cum Laude, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, 3.523, Magna Cum Laude at University at Buffalo
Chinese, English