Summary
Ping-che Ho is a versatile software engineer with 9 years of experience building and operating high-availability backend systems, currently driving productivity and reliability at Pure Storage. He specializes in SRE, DevOps, and distributed microservices, having architected and owned end-to-end systems (Flask, Celery, RabbitMQ, Redis, ElasticSearch, Kubernetes) originally scoped for multi-person teams and delivered solo. Notable wins include reducing internal test selection indexing from 20+ minutes to seconds, cutting REST SDK test runtime from hours to minutes, and achieving a 99.5% improvement in middleware test efficiency. He combines deep Python and SQL performance tuning with practical cloud and CI/CD automation on GCP/OpenShift, and has a track record of modernizing legacy releases while preserving backwards compatibility. Comfortable mentoring and leading cross-functional initiatives, he also brings systems-level academic work (distributed MapReduce and fault-tolerant storage) to bear on production challenges. Based in Sunnyvale with a CS master’s from UIUC, he thrives in high-responsibility, zero-to-one environments where ownership and resilience matter.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English