# Jonathan Ho

> Senior Software Engineer at Apple

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jonathanho1

Currently dedicating my career to web development through Ruby on Rails, Go and React. Interested in distributed computing projects and high scale infrastructure.

Feel free to check out my website https://jonwho.github.io to run some sample apps I have written or to see my future work!

Please please absolutely no cold calls.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Apple
Jan 2020 – Present

### Software Engineer @ Opendoor
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
Software Engineer on Growth & Engagement working in Ruby on Rails, React & React Native

* Consolidated metric APIs to reduce monthly engineering spend
* Build similar homes fallback API to improve response times
* Launched Early Access feature which sees higher user engagement
* Setup data feed and test Iterable email templates
* Update buying experience on web to meet parity with mobile experience
* Add new UI / CTAs that drive user engagement and tour conversion
* Document existing deep links and best practices to debug and develop

### Software Engineer @ ReSci (Retention Science)
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019
Software Engineer on the Product Engineering team working in Ruby on Rails

* Develop tool to allow clients to build and target custom audience segments
* Integrate Data Science predictions based on control/distribution ratio
* Create report builder for product metrics
* AWS Batch development to scale with holiday traffic
* New SLA monitors to oversee core services
* UTM integration for clients on Google Analytics
* 3rd party plugin system for flexible data integration
* Internal API development for frontend and Data API for clients
* On-call rotation to triage/fix service operations

### Software Developer @ Whisper App
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Venice, California
Software Developer on the Web team developing in Elixir, Erlang, Phoenix framework, and CoffeeScript

* Add ad partners through header bidding
* A/B test call-to-action mobile installs from web
* Audience demographic targeting for partner campaigns

### Full Stack Software Engineer @ Fullscreen Media
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Playa Vista, CA
Software Engineer on the Video Operations team developing in Ruby on Rails and AngularJS/ReactJS.

* Develop tools in and around video.js (JavaScript, HTML5/CSS3)
* Experience working with DASH/HLS streams and caption rendering in browsers
* Develop tests in RSpec 3 covering unit testing to feature testing
* Client-side QC tools developed in AngularJS 1.x / ReactJS
* Work on asset workflow automation from ingestion to publishing using Workflow gem
* Use of workers and processes through Sidekiq gem
* User operations with Devise gem
* XML manipulation with Nokogiri gem for dynamic caption playback
* Query interface in client with Ransack gem
* Development debugging with pry-rails gem

### Student Programmer @ UC San Diego, School of International Relations & Pacific Studies (IR/PS)
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | La Jolla
* Developing a game in Unity for Android for use in a research study by Emory University School of Medicine and University of California San Diego School of Medicine.
* Role of the game is to teach children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) how to use meta-cognitive techniques to reduce disruptive behavior.

### Software Architect Intern @ Sony Network Entertainment Int'l (SNEI)
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
-Developed an internal tool in AngularJS to manage client resources. Worked 1-on-1 with a client integration engineer to meet tooling needs that mitigate redundancy in daily tasks. Application consumed RESTful resources in much easier to read and digestible manner compared to old way of shell scripts and terminal formatting.

-Made a message board app during company hackathon. Developed using the MEAN (MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, Node.js) stack. In 24 hours implemented a back-end service to store comments and a web client to let anonymous users make posts or comments. Allowed admin to delete posts if necessary.

### Web Developer @ BridgeCrest Medical
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014
-Began Web Portal development in a start up environment
-Worked with Ruby on Rails for site creation
-Delegated web portal tasks
-Bootstrap for front-end development
-ActiveRecord ORM on MySQL
-Site Testing done through RSpec

### Software Developer Intern @ Life Technologies
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Carlsbad
As a software developer intern at Life Technologies I write deployment test code that helps automate the deployment of software apps onto servers. I have also done work on sequence diagrams and Global IT functions for Life Technologies. Through this internship I was a part of the SCRUM/Agile development process and learned a lot about web services in an enterprise environment.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science and Engineering
UC San Diego
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jonwho
- Website: http://jonwho.github.io
- GitHub: https://github.com/jonwho

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Last updated: 2026-03-22