Vanessa Ho
Engineering Manager, Mobile App at IKEA
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolVanessa Ho is an engineering manager with nine years of experience building mobile, backend and data-driven platforms for retail, utilities and IoT, currently leading IKEA’s in-store mobile app teams to deliver seamless omnichannel experiences. She combines hands-on technical depth—shipping personalization pipelines and ML-backed recommendations for 100M+ customers—with people leadership across iOS, Android and backend engineers. Vanessa is an active community builder: she organizes a 600+ IKEA Tech Guild, founded a women-focused coding meetup in Amsterdam, chairs the Amsterdam Women & Allies group, and runs a digital carbon footprint initiative. Known for a pragmatic, data-informed approach, she blends product focus with modern cloud and MLOps practices and a background in sustainable water systems that informs her systems-thinking and user-centred design.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Integrated Water Management, Masters Integrated Water Management at The University of QueenslandFull Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering at freeCodeCampB.Sc Science and Business, B.Sc Science and Business at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (17)
chrome-extension6
firefox-addon6
annotate5
full-text-search5
browser-extension5
annotations5
javascript4
chrome4
typescript4
browser3
ruby2
rails2
css2
ruby-on-rails2
react2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
WorldBrain/Notifications
Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 118 pushes, 6 branches in 1 month
V-Ho/todo-mongo-node
Feb 2018 - May 2020
Contributions:67 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 3 months
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