# Brennen Ho

> Incoming @ Decagon | CE & CS @ USC | Presidential & Viterbi Scholar | Prev @ Bloomberg

Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/brennenho

Motivated engineer passionate about responsible artificial intelligence development. Experienced with full-stack development and AI research in dynamic environments.

## Work Experience
### Incoming Software Engineering Intern @ Decagon
Jan 2025 – Present
AI agents for concierge customer experience.

### Engineering @ TroyLabs
Jan 2026 – Present

### VP of Product @ Code The Change
Jan 2025 – Present
Coordinating product development and collaborating with 3 nonprofits and 40+ designers and developers.

### Developer @ Code The Change
Jan 2024 – Present
Created a React Native mobile app to connect survivors of human trafficking with support resources and personnel.

### Mentor @ LavaLab
Jan 2025 – Present

### Developer @ LavaLab
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025
Created Vector — an agentic AI navigation startup for instant, in-app support.
Won Audience's Choice Award for product demos and pitch.

### Software Engineer @ USC Makers
Jan 2023 – Present

### Director of Finance @ USC Makers
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025
Directed a ~$15,000 yearly budget, including fundraising, grants, sponsorships, and reimbursements. Planned weekly meetings and long-term goals, communicating with other members of the executive board.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Bloomberg
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | New York, United States
Created and evaluated methods for an AI guardrail system to verify legal citations. Fine-tuned an LLM to achieve a ~20% increase in accuracy over commercial foundational LLM models.

### Software Engineering Intern @ ChipStack
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024
Collaborated at a 10-person, seed-stage startup funded by Vinod Khosla using LLMs to automate semiconductor chip design and verification.

Designed and implemented a Python pipeline to collect and filter high-quality data to create a proprietary foundational code-generation LLM through continued pretraining.

### Team Member @ SOMISOMI
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Palo Alto, California, United States
Excelled in a fast-paced team environment, paying attention to food safety standards and cross-contamination. Responded to patron questions and complaints while providing high-quality customer service.

### Team Co-Captain @ Palo Alto High School Robotics Team
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Palo Alto, California, United States
Oversaw ~80 members of a FIRST Robotics Competition team while guiding a 20-person leadership team. Directed daily operations, team administration, community engagement, long-term sustainability, outreach, and funding.

### Build Project Manager @ Palo Alto High School Robotics Team
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Palo Alto, California, United States

### First Lego League Lead @ Palo Alto High School Robotics Team
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Palo Alto, California, United States

### Build Member @ Palo Alto High School Robotics Team
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Palo Alto, California, United States

### RISE Research Intern @ Boston University Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022
Restructured a fuzzing-based verification system for computer hardware as a member of BU’s Research in Science & Engineering program (RISE) under Professor Ajay Joshi. Optimized testing of microprocessor designs using compression strategies and parallelization, resulting in a 20%
improvement in runtime.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
University of Southern California

### High School Diploma
Palo Alto High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/brennenho
- Portfolio: https://brennen.dev

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Last updated: 2026-04-10