Wei Hou
Software Engineer at Pinterest
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWei Hou is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building full‑stack web applications, currently contributing to Pinterest after a multi‑year staff engineering role at LinkedIn. He brings deep front‑end expertise in React, GraphQL/Apollo and modern JS (ES6) alongside backend skills in Python/Django, Ruby on Rails and production databases, having led teams and shipped customer‑facing platforms at Cerner and C2FO. Wei has a strong background in performance‑sensitive systems from his electrical engineering training (USC) and early computer vision work, which informed both algorithmic thinking and practical optimizations in production code. He’s an advocate for modern web stacks, an open‑source author (xfc) used across enterprise teams, and balances technical curiosity with real‑world delivery—off the clock he’s a devoted soccer player and math enthusiast.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Electrical Engineering, Master of Science Electrical Engineering at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Engineering Electrical Engineering and Automation, Bachelor of Engineering Electrical Engineering and Automation at Nanjing University of Science and Technology
Chinese, English
Github Skills (128)
ui-components10
metadata10
data-management10
language-design10
react-components10
datahub10
devtools10
cross-domain10
typescript10
data-profiling10
data-catalog10
metadata-management10
data-governance10
antd10
ui-design10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kafkahw/personal-site
Jan 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 2 years
kafkahw/datahub
Jul 2021 - Jan 2022
A Metadata Platform for the Modern Data Stack
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
data-managementdata-stackmodern-data-stackdatahubmetadata
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