Po Hong
Technical Staff at Stealth AI Startup
Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPo Hong is a technical staff leader with 10+ years driving large-scale analytics, lakehouse design, and AI/ML enablement across startups and enterprise teams. He has built and led presales, field engineering, and customer-success engagements at Onehouse, AWS, Vertica, and Teradata, translating technical POCs into deals while mentoring high-performing engineers. Expert in Spark tuning and cost-optimized data architectures, he focuses on platform reliability and accelerating customer value realization for strategic accounts. Now designing and deploying agentic AI/ML applications at a stealth startup, he blends deep engineering rigor (PhD-level training) with practical commercial impact. Based in Gaithersburg, MD, he’s as comfortable aligning stakeholders as he is tuning distributed jobs for speed and thrift—often uncovering cost savings customers hadn’t anticipated.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Physics, B.S., Physics at Peking UniversityPh. D., Engineering, Ph. D., Engineering at Northwestern University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (7)
stream-processing10
spark10
incremental-processing10
data-integration9
hadoop9
apache-flink9
big-data9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
pomaster/hudi
Jul 2022 - Sep 2022
Upserts, Deletes And Incremental Processing on Big Data.
Contributions:20 pushes in 1 month
deltastream-processingincrementaldatabase-accessincremental-processing
pomaster/poc_test
Dec 2024 - Feb 2025
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 months
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