Joy Hou
Senior Software Engineer at First American
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoy Hou is a Senior Software Engineer in Seattle with 10 years of cross-functional experience building scalable full-stack systems, particularly in JavaScript, Java, Kotlin, TypeScript, PHP, and a range of AWS technologies. She has driven measurable improvements at Amazon—halving tail latency, cutting EC2 costs by 25%, and raising resiliency for a 50K TPS service—while also leading teams as a scrum leader and mentoring peers. Comfortable translating fast-changing business needs into production-quality features, she’s built end-to-end services, microservices, notification systems, and data-ingest pipelines for high-throughput environments. Her background as an attorney and mortgage consultant informs a pragmatic, compliance-aware approach to product design and client communication. Outside work she’s an adventurous dancer and educator who brings curiosity and empathy to technical leadership.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Legal Studies, B.A., Legal Studies at University of Wisconsin-MadisonJ.D., J.D. at University of Illinois College of LawAdvanced Software Development in Full Stack JavaScript, JavaScript, Advanced Software Development in Full Stack JavaScript, JavaScript at Code Fellows
Chinese
Github Skills (23)
payment-service9
plaid9
react-component8
api7
react6
payment-methods6
php5
javascript4
nodejs4
python4
flutter3
socket-io3
socket3
single-page3
redux2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
gameofthieves/back-end
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:72 commits, 29 PRs, 45 pushes in 6 days
gameback-endgame-of
strawbee/babyseal
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:77 commits, 60 PRs, 67 pushes in 8 days
javascriptpythonnodejs
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