Hugh Hou
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolHugh Hou is a Senior Software Engineer based in Sydney with a decade of experience focused on low-level systems like operating systems and compilers. He progressed from research roles at CSIRO Data61 into industry engineering at Canva and Google, now serving as a senior engineer at Google’s Sydney office. Hugh combines academic rigor from UNSW with practical system-building at scale, contributing to production-grade infrastructure and performance-sensitive code. Fluent also in Russian language studies, he brings an unusual blend of technical depth and cross-cultural perspective to engineering teams. He prefers substance over buzzwords and is known for tackling hard problems close to the metal rather than surface-level features.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Russian Language and Literature, Bachelor of Arts - BA Russian Language and Literature at University of International Business and EconomicsUNSW Sydney
Github Skills (103)
colorize10
reader10
windows10
vim-plugin10
vim10
lua10
nvim10
todoist10
api10
coc-nvim10
dart10
text-editor10
cross-platform10
vscode-extension10
android10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
hyhugh/HyVim
Apr 2018 - Aug 2022
Contributions:118 commits, 127 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 4 months
hyhugh/coc-erlang_ls
Sep 2019 - Jul 2021
Contributions:18 commits, 1 PR, 18 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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