Michael Ho
Co-Founder at Stealth Startup
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Ho is a seasoned distributed systems engineer and entrepreneur based in Chicago with 7 years of experience building secure, high-throughput infrastructure for finance and blockchain. He has driven production engineering at Citadel Securities and Cosmos Dex—where his work helped secure over $450M in assets via aggregated signature pBFT systems—and later implemented secure enclave-based digital identity features at Heirloom. As a platform engineer at Gem HQ he bridged enterprise blockchain tooling and wallet onramps, and he now applies that cross-domain expertise as Co-Founder of a stealth startup. Michael blends low-level cryptography and consensus engineering with product-minded delivery, frequently operating at the intersection of security, performance, and usability. His dual degree in Computer Science and Business Administration from USC reflects his comfort with both technical depth and go-to-market thinking. He brings a track record of shipping resilient, auditable systems in high-stakes environments and a knack for translating complex distributed protocols into operational products.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.S Computer Science and Business Administration, B.S Computer Science and Business Administration at University of Southern California
English, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (8)
blockchain9
wallet9
javascript8
cryptocurrency8
ethereum8
typescript7
machine-learning1
deep-learning1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
smartyalgo/votingSystem
Feb 2023 - Feb 2024
A Blind Signature Voting System for EthDenver 2023
Contributions:2 reviews, 13 PRs, 37 pushes in 11 months
smartyalgo/informedPriors
Dec 2018 - Dec 2018
An AI-Powered Disease Pathway Research Tool
Contributions:9 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
ai-poweredpathwaydeep-learningmachinelearningmachine-learning
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