# Ian Hou

> Software Dev Engineer

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ianhou

At Amazon, I develop and maintain open-source CDK infrastructure library code for the deployment of AWS services. I collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality, reliable experiences for both internal and external customers. See some of my work at github.com/iankhou.

I earned my dual Bachelors of Arts in Computer Science and Chinese Language in 2022 from Dartmouth College, where I also served as a teaching assistant and developed software in the DALI Lab.

## Work Experience
### Software Dev Engineer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2022 – Present | New York, New York, United States
Spearheaded a platform migration that reduced team operational overhead by 24%

Delivered UX improvements in A/B tests that resulted in net revenue increases of $87MM YoY for Campaign Creation

Led Design Reviews and implemented solutions to improve logging efficiency, which generalized the onboarding process for Structured Logging for applications and reduced excessive application logs

Implemented new campaign creation workflow to remediate broken campaigns due to API failures, improving system reliability by eliminating non-atomic (ineffective) campaign creations

Implemented a UI-safe error interface in Java backend service to enable and deploy custom error banners in our user-facing application

Collaborated on an upstream frontend platform for all CC applications, improving scalability and performance for all CC applications through consistent and extendable design patterns

### Software Automation Engineer @ Requipper
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Remote
Automated listing and delisting of products between Requipper and partner inventories using Selenium-based Python workflows deployed on Google Cloud, eliminating spend on data-entry roles

Optimized Google Ads program by automating existing data stream using the Google Sheets API, Docker engine, and Google Apps Script, accelerating ad listings from a one-week delay to near instant

### Machine Learning Engineer @ Mana
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Remote
Built and maintained pipeline for machine learning and deep learning models to optimize future activity prediction

Designed a timeseries random forest model with Python3, sklearn, and TensorFlow to improve prediction accuracy by 15%

Implemented a neural network with up to 95% accuracy for some users, using TensorFlow and Keras

Deployed Docker containers that integrated with a full-stack app using RabbitMQ as a messaging layer

### Mobile Application Developer @ whiteboard
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Remote
Developed and deployed to beta testing a serverless React Native mobile app for MVP, enabling founders to present a working prototype to investors

Facilitated a streamlined merge between live mobile and web NoSQL databases, resulting in no loss of availability

### Teaching Assistant @ Dartmouth College
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Hanover, New Hampshire, United States
Held office hours and one-on-one meetings with students in Full-Stack Web Development; created and troubleshooted lab assignments involving web development frameworks (React.js, React Native, and Node.js) for a class of 50 students

Tutored six students in Introduction to Programming and Computation; met with each student 3 hours a week to debug assignments and go over course concepts resulting in grade improvements of up to two letter grades

### Software Engineer @ DALI Lab
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Hanover, NH
Developed and deployed a React Native/Firebase mobile app for task management and goal setting

Developed GoPhish, an anti-Phishing web-app (React.js) designed to protect students and faculty at college institutions via an online competition; platform released to Dartmouth’s 7,000+ students and employees in March 2021

Received Neukom Scholarship for research in the development of novel computational methods on the tracking and identification of undiagnosed medical conditions

### Assistant Manager @ Fusion Ti Group
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Edison, NJ

### Data Entry Clerk @ Mid-Jersey Pediatrics
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | East Brunswick, NJ

### Volunteer Graphic Designer @ Stanford University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Beijing City, China


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Computer Science and Chinese
Dartmouth College
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022

### High School Diploma in N/A
East Brunswick High School
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ian-k-hou
- Website: https://ianhou.dev

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Last updated: 2026-03-23