Nicholas Ho
Student at The University of Sydney
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Ho is a postgraduate student based in Sydney with 11 years of diverse experience spanning psychology research, retail leadership, and back-end software contributions. He holds an Honours in Psychology and is completing a final year in Gender Studies, with international study stints at the University of Amsterdam and a Cambridge summer programme. As a Denison Research Scholar he co-authored work on emotion dysregulation and eating behaviours, developed social media coding schemas, and managed participant induction and ethics—skills that translate into rigorous data handling and research-led product thinking. In industry he progressed to acting manager in retail, consistently driving sales and operational improvements while mentoring new staff. On GitHub he has contributed to the Soufflé Datalog project, maintaining build scripts and license compliance for a notable research-oriented codebase, underscoring attention to engineering detail. He also brings committed volunteer work supporting LGBTQIA+ wellbeing, combining technical, academic and community-focused strengths.
11 years of coding experience
Higher School Certificate, Higher School Certificate at Normanhurst Boys High SchoolSummer Programme, Summer Programme at University of CambridgeStudy Abroad, PSYCHOLOGY, Study Abroad, PSYCHOLOGY at University of AmsterdamUNSW Sydney
English, Chinese
Github Skills (13)
translator10
key-management10
licensing10
datalog10
translators10
logic-programming10
rights-management10
flet10
ff10
cprogramming-language9
build-system9
c-language9
automated-tests8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
souffle-lang/souffle
Apr 2016 - Mar 2017
Soufflé is a variant of Datalog for tool designers crafting analyses in Horn clauses. Soufflé synthesizes a native parallel C++ program from a logic specification.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 23 PRs, 46 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Nicholas primarily focused on maintaining and updating the project's codebase. Their commits involved fixing license headers to adhere to the Universal Permissive License (UPL) across multiple files. Furthermore, the user made updates to the source code by shrinking the licenses. They also updated and reorganized Travis-CI build scripts.
cppdatalogstatic-code-analysissouffletranslator
cauliflower-cflr/cauliflower
Apr 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:100 commits, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 2 months
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