Jou Ho
Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJou Ho is a software engineer and MS student in computer science based in Seattle with seven years of hands-on experience spanning cloud services, security, and web development. Currently on the AWS Cryptography team after an IoT Core internship, Jou has practical experience hardening TLS/SSL implementations—contributing security fixes to the well-known aws/s2n-tls project. Their background blends object-oriented design, full software lifecycle practice, and applied research from University of Washington projects involving NLP, scrollytelling geonarratives, and geo-blockchain DApps. As a former teaching assistant and project lead, Jou pairs technical depth with mentoring and team coordination skills. They have a demonstrated ability to rapidly close knowledge gaps—learning Solidity, building crawlers and dashboards, and shipping production-facing features. Jou brings a security-conscious, data-driven approach to building reliable, user-focused systems.
7 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Geographic Information Science and Cartography, Bachelor's degree Geographic Information Science and Cartography at University of WashingtonMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Seattle University
Github Skills (14)
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crypto10
it-security10
mtls10
ssl10
tls1210
c1110
tls1310
encryption10
cryptography10
libtls10
security10
openssl9
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
aws/s2n-tls
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
An implementation of the TLS/SSL protocols
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:159 reviews, 77 PRs, 260 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Jou primarily focused on fixing vulnerabilities and improving the security of the TLS/SSL implementation. They addressed bugs in the TLS 1.3 code path, corrected session ticket handling, and resolved issues with the certificate verification process. Additionally, they modified the code to ensure proper handling of zero-length NewSessionTicket messages and also fixed an OpenSSL-FIPS related issue.
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jouho/s2n-tls
Aug 2024 - Jan 2025
An implementation of the TLS/SSL protocols
Contributions:152 pushes, 30 branches in 5 months
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