Summary
Shawn Hou is a Senior Software Development Engineer with over 10 years of experience building backend-driven web systems and enterprise applications, currently based in Fengtai District, Beijing and working at Hikvision. He brings strong Java and C# expertise (Java 8), deep familiarity with Spring/Struts, persistence frameworks (Hibernate/MyBatis), caching/messaging stacks (Redis, Memcached, ActiveMQ) and relational databases (Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL). Shawn pairs backend strength with practical front-end skills (Dojo, jQuery, EasyUI) and a history of integrating third-party services, from shipping APIs in e-commerce startups to large-scale attendance and monitoring systems as a team lead. His graduate research on optimizing data lifetime in battery-constrained sensor networks demonstrates a disciplined algorithmic mindset—he implemented and proved optimality for a flow-based solution—bringing analytical rigor to production engineering. Known for reliable delivery at Hikvision and prior leadership at Hanwang, he excels at bridging algorithmic thinking with pragmatic system design to solve real-world operational challenges.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer and Information Sciences, General, 3.0, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer and Information Sciences, General, 3.0 at University
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at Wichita State University
English, Chinese