Summary
Rayson Ho is a seasoned software developer with 15 years of experience specializing in system programming, cloud infrastructure, and high-performance distributed systems. He has deep, hands-on expertise across OpenStack (Nova, Neutron, Keystone), AWS (EC2, VPC, S3, DynamoDB) and large-scale data platforms like Hadoop and Spark, and has built commercial systems including batch schedulers, an optimizing compiler/runtime, and a database engine. His background spans an unusually broad set of UNIX and legacy platforms (from AIX, Solaris and IRIX to Cray UNICOS and z/OS), enabling rare cross-platform interoperability and kernel-level work. An active open-source contributor, he’s contributed to projects such as Sun Grid Engine, Boto, Open MPI, PostgreSQL and Google TCMalloc, reflecting a focus on performance and tooling. Based in Old Toronto, he combines low-level systems craftsmanship with cloud-native provisioning practices to deliver scalable, production-grade infrastructure.
15 years of coding experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering at University of Toronto