# Amber Houle

> Founding Engineer at Cambio AI

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/amberhoule

Decarbonizing real estate with Cambio AI

## Work Experience
### Founding Staff Engineer @ Cambio (YC S22)
Jan 2023 – Present
Founding Backend Engineer at Cambio AI, responsible for designing and operating the core backend systems that power the platform. Built scalable APIs, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure, with a strong focus on reliability, security, and compliance.

### Staff Software Engineer @ One Medical
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
Multiple years working with the data interoperability team, which is responsible for seamlessly integrating and exchanging healthcare data with external healthcare systems according to various healthcare interoperability data exchange standards (FHIR, HL7, CCDA, etc).

### Senior Software Engineer @ One Medical
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Software Developer @ ThoughtWorks
Jan 2014 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Senior Engineer at a large retailer
- Contributing to a greenfield order management system in golang and Java using docker, kubernetes and Google Cloud Platform

- Software consultant working at a Canadian telecommunications company
- helping move existing applications to a reference architecture in Node.js, React & Redux and build new fullstack consumer facing applications

- Software consultant at a large financial institution
- Contributing to a large CQRS and event sourcing based platform using Axon framework for Java and Domain Driven Design

- Software Developer / Consultant at a large food distributor
- Provided recommendations to improve existing architecture of cloud based systems running in AWS
- Developed several proof of concepts to demonstrate cost savings and potential performance improvements of recommended architecture

- Software Developer / Consultant at a large airline
- Helped migrate existing systems onto new flight reservation systems in Java
- Worked with DevOps team to help dockerize their existing CI environment

- 5 week ThoughtWorks University in India
- Java based OO programming bootcamp, TDD, Agile Methodologies

### Student @ Bitmaker Labs
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Toronto, Canada
Bitmaker Labs is a 9 week intensive programming bootcamp downtown Toronto.

The program focuses on concepts such as:
      - HTML / CSS
      - Ruby on Rails
      - Git / Gitub,
      - Test Driven Development
      - Javascript, JQuery, AJAX
      - Relational Databases, SQL

### Masters Student @ University of Toronto
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
Masters of Engineering in Electrical and Computer Engineering

### Teaching Assistant @ Queen's University
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | Kingston Ontario
-Teaching Assistant for first year engineering course: Introduction to Computer Programming
-Supervisor of weekly computer programming labs as well as grading weekly quizzes on computer programming

### Problem Analysis Mentor @ Queen's University
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Kingston, ON
-Teaching Assistant / Problem Analysis Mentor for first year engineering course: Engineering Practice: Problem Analysis and Modeling 
-Supervisor of weekly studio sessions focused on developing students problem solving skills while applying Matlab to various science and engineering problems
-Graded written formal reports as well as weekly quizzes

### Research Assistant @ Technical University of Kaiserslautern
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011
-Summer position funded through NSERC USRA awarded by the University of Toronto
-Position held at Kaiserslautern University of Technology in Germany
-A laser diode system was built and optimized, to be used for Rubidium spectroscopy and laser cooling experiments for the study of ultracold quantum gases (in particular Bose-Einstein condensates)

### Research Assistant @ Penguin Automated Systems Inc.
Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 | Sudbury, ON
-Edited software for the implementation of an accelerometer as well as a GPS using Visual Studio C++, to be used on a tele-operated machine
-Performed measurements to characterize the efficiency of an optical communication system in different environments


## Education
### Masters of Engineering (M.Eng.) in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
University of Toronto

### Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) in Engineering Physics
Queen's University

### College Notre Dame


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/amberhoule
- Portfolio: http://www.amberhoule.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-12