Howard Guo
VP Technology at KKR
Dublin, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolHoward Guo is a technology leader with 14–15 years of hands-on software and cloud engineering experience, currently serving as VP Technology at KKR after senior engineering roles at Google and F-Secure. He blends systems-level expertise in Go, Typescript, Java and Python with deep operational experience—building safe continuous deployment, observability, and network tooling at Google and architecting cloud-native CI/CD and IoT edge solutions across Azure and AWS. A pragmatic advocate for infrastructure-as-code and cost-aware architectures, he has scaled automation for hundreds of pipelines and improved incident response for large SRE populations. Howard also contributes to open source low-level tooling—authoring NoSQL data-structure work in Go and SSSD test automation for openSUSE—which reflects his appetite for both core systems and platform reliability. Based in Dublin, he pairs a rigorous engineering craft with a collaborative coaching style that accelerates team productivity and operational resilience.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Certified System Analyst Advanced Computer Programmer Certified Visual Programmer Software engineering, Certified System Analyst Advanced Computer Programmer Certified Visual Programmer Software engineering at Beijing Aptech Beida Jade Bird Information Technology Co.,LTDShort course Compilers, Short course Compilers at Harbin Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Information Technology System Development, Bachelor of Information Technology System Development at Monash University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (17)
ldap10
testing10
sssd10
opensuse10
data-structure10
go10
fileio10
file-processing10
file-handling10
hashtable10
data-structures10
file-access10
test-automation10
nosql9
kerberos9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
HouzuoGuo/tiedot
May 2013 - Sep 2021
A rudimentary implementation of a basic document (NoSQL) database in Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 652 commits, 16 PRs in 8 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Howard appears to be responsible for implementing data structure related features for a basic NoSQL database in Go. Their contributions are focused on the data layer, specifically related to file management and index structures. The code changes involve the creation and implementation of persistent data structures such as hash tables and the addition of API features for the core database functionality.
golangnosqlnosql-databasedatabasedocument-database
os-autoinst/os-autoinst-distri-opensuse
Mar 2015 - Sep 2016
os-autoinst test cases for openSUSE
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:10 commits, 13 PRs, 11 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Howard primarily contributed to the test suite for the os-autoinst project, focusing on SSSD (System Security Services Daemon) integration tests. They added new test scenarios, reverted and corrected existing tests, and updated configuration files to accommodate system changes. The user's work ensures the functionality and stability of openSUSE authentication features, particularly concerning LDAP and Kerberos. The user also maintained and adjusted test scripts to account for changes in upstream dependencies, ensuring test suite reliability.
opensusecasestest-cases
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