Hou Tou
SDE at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHou Tou is a pragmatic SDE with 8 years of experience building performance-sensitive C++ systems at Amazon’s Kindle Rendering team and contributing to real-world open source like the D++ Discord C++ library. Deeply interested in C++ template metaprogramming and functional programming, he favors succinct, readable, and maintainable designs that scale from embedded image viewers to large services. His background tutoring advanced data structures and hands-on work with image viewers, Xcode, and networking give him strong system-design instincts and a practical eye for runtime complexity and tradeoffs. Security-aware and detail-oriented, he has a track record of fixing subtle bugs (double-free, undefined behavior) and improving robustness in UDP/voice handling and search performance.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.), Computer Science, Associate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.), Computer Science at Bellevue CollegeUniversity of California San DiegoHigh School Diploma, High School/Secondary Diploma Programs, High School Diploma, High School/Secondary Diploma Programs at Pui Ching Middle School
English, Chinese, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (13)
c-language10
websocket10
opus10
websockets-client10
websocket-client10
cprogramming-language10
client-websocket10
discord10
api-client10
discord-bot9
cpp8
json8
wrapper8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
brainboxdotcc/DPP
Apr 2022 - Jun 2022
C++ Discord API Bot Library - D++ is Lightweight and scalable for small and huge bots!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 13 commits, 13 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Hou primarily contributed to improving the `dpp` C++ Discord API bot library. They fixed a double-free issue related to voice channel disconnection and optimized guild member search queries. The user also addressed compiler warnings, refactoring the code to prevent potential undefined behavior. Further enhancements include improvements to voice receive handling, including out-of-order and lost UDP packet handling and gain control per user.
discordbotdiscord-botdppdiscord-bot-api
kar8uncle/DPP
May 2022 - Jun 2022
D++ Extremely Lightweight C++ Discord Bot Library
Contributions:66 pushes in 1 month
cppdiscordbotdiscord-botdiscord-c
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