Simon Ho
Platform Manager
Hong Kong, China
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Ho is a Platform Manager at IBM with 11 years of technology and solutions experience across Hong Kong’s public and private sectors. He combines a strong commercial background in IT infrastructure sales and consulting with hands-on engineering contributions, notably to the LoopBack open-source framework where he improved backend context binding and dynamic binding features. Holding an MSc in Information Technology from HKUST and a BSc in Computing Science from Simon Fraser University, he bridges technical depth and stakeholder-facing delivery. At IBM he focuses on platform strategy and operational excellence informed by earlier roles at PCCW and in healthcare and government IT. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and detail-oriented, able to move between code-level problem solving and shaping platform capabilities. He brings a useful mix of sales-savvy client engagement and real engineering craft to platform leadership.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computing science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computing science at Simon Fraser UniversityMaster of Science (MSc), Information Technology, Master of Science (MSc), Information Technology at HKUST
Github Skills (11)
application-framework10
app-framework10
web-framework10
typescript10
nodejs10
typescripts10
loopback10
typescript-types10
testing9
api9
dependency-injection8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
loopbackio/loopback-next
Jan 2017 - Jun 2017
LoopBack makes it easy to build modern API applications that require complex integrations.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:92 commits, 62 PRs, 143 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the LoopBack framework, focusing on context bindings and their implementation. Their work involved creating, resolving, and managing bindings, including locking and tagging features within the context. They also refactored code and addressed project cleanup tasks like modifying test dependencies and ordering type definitions. Furthermore, they added dynamic binding functionalities.
apirequireloopbackiocframework
strongloop/loopback-example-kv-connectors
Aug 2016 - Mar 2017
LoopBack KeyValue connector examples.
Contributions:12 commits, 10 PRs, 56 pushes in 6 months
loopbackconnectorkeyvalue
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