Karly Hou
Product Manager at Wave Learning Festival
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKarly Hou is a product manager and founder with nine years of interdisciplinary experience at the intersection of software, research, and education. Currently at Vesta, she combines hands-on engineering instincts from internships at Two Sigma, NVIDIA, and D. E. Shaw with product research experience from Bubble to prioritize secure, scalable features. As founder and executive director of Wave Learning Festival, she built an education nonprofit that delivered thousands of tutoring hours and served 20,000+ students across all 50 states, demonstrating strong operational and mission-driven leadership. Her research background at Harvard spans ML fairness, spectral graph theory, interpretability, and ML-augmented algorithms, and her senior thesis explored Gaussian splatting, reflecting deep technical rigor. She has co-founded startups, shipped full-stack systems, and repeatedly bridged academic research with practical product outcomes. Based in California, Karly brings a rare blend of product intuition, research pedigree, and nonprofit-scale impact.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Gunn High SchoolMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Harvard University
English, Chinese, Spanish, French
Github Skills (2)
wakeup7
react3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
karlyh66/karlyh66.github.io
Dec 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:136 pushes in 1 year 2 months
karlyh66/karlyh66
Sep 2020 - Apr 2024
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
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