Mai Hou
Engineer at TidalWave
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMai Hou is an experienced frontend engineer with 12 years building web and interactive products, currently shaping design and engineering at TidalWave after roles at Squarespace and Better. She led front-end teams at Douban Read, architecting a Draft.js/CodeMirror-backed WYSIWYG ebook editor and migrating a large jQuery site to a React single-page architecture that supported 30+ SPAs. With an MFA in Game Design from NYU and a background in electronic and information engineering, she blends UI craftsmanship, game-informed interaction thinking, and practical product delivery. Known for prototyping decision engines, internal tooling, and content-focused experiences, she ships polished interfaces that improve team velocity as well as user outcomes. Her public work and projects emphasize making Web and games, reflecting a creative engineer who moves comfortably between product, tooling, and interactive systems.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Fine Arts - MFA Game Design, Master of Fine Arts - MFA Game Design at New York UniversityBachelor’s Degree Electronic and Information Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Electronic and Information Engineering at Huazhong University of Science and Technology
English, Chinese
Github Skills (140)
mobile-development10
textarea10
wysiwyg10
hook10
app-framework10
react-hooks10
cross-platform10
draft-js10
android10
fetch10
mobile10
editors10
formik10
contenteditable10
ios10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
houkanshan/stonert
Apr 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:40 commits in 1 month
houkanshan/houkanshan.com
Apr 2019 - Nov 2024
Contributions:48 pushes in 5 years 7 months
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