# Jozef Chou

> Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services

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

Innovator and distinguished software architect and developer with deep understanding of hardware and software technologies who creates, leads, and rapidly develops and delivers highly available, fault tolerant, fast, efficient and scalable solutions.

My strengths include broad and deep experience with systems and technologies to optimize resources, rapid development and delivery of innovative products, highly effective communication and troubleshooting of complex system solutions, and being a leader and motivator of advanced products and development of engineering staff.

I am equally comfortable in application and kernel development, creating and communicating high level abstractions and complex architectures, and deep diving into highly performance sensitive code, network protocols, video transports and splicing for advertisement and trick play.

My passion is to dream and create, develop and deliver, mentor and multiply.

Specialties: Communications, Storage, Video and Multimedia, Cloud and Distributed Computing, Data Analysis, Linux Kernel

## Work Experience
### Principal Engineer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2022 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States

### Distinguished Software Architect @ Synamedia
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
. Driver and architect of Synamedia's next generation Cloud Object Store
. Responsible for the overall architecture and development of Synamedia's storage solution managing next generation segmented media content

### Principal Engineer @ Cisco
Jan 2006 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
. Responsible for the overall architecture and development of Cisco's TV VOD product offerings; deployed at multiple MSOs and Telco
. Responsible for the architecture and development of Cisco's Network DVR, used as the industry reference architecture for what is allowable without copyright infringement; deployed at major North American MSO
. Architect of Cisco's Cloud Object Store, a resilient, fault tolerant, self-healing, highly available and scalable storage solution; a major component of Cisco's Cloud DVR offering
. Highly visible expert with engineering, marketing and customer executives in communication and troubleshooting of broad and deep system issues on highly scalable and performance sensitive systems, including third party solutions

### Co-Founder and Chief Architect @ Arroyo Video Solutions
Jan 2002 – Jan 2006 | San Francisco Bay Area
. Responsible for the overall architecture and development of Arroyo's persistent stores, CDN, and edge streamers, built on a core server engine, to deliver performance on general purpose hardware that exceed the competition on special purpose hardware
. Led successful execution of verification and deployment of Arroyo's VOD solution at North American MSO

### Senior Software Engineering Consultant @ Novell
Jan 1997 – Jan 2001 | Greater New York City Area
Responsible for the architecture and development of the Cache Object Store for Novell's web and streaming cache

### Technical Contributor @ HP
Jan 1996 – Jan 1997 | Greater New York City Area
Responsible for evolving file system and virtual memory architectures for HP-UX

### Software Engineering Consultant @ AT&T/USL/Novell
Jan 1988 – Jan 1996 | Greater New York City Area
. Responsible for the architecture and development of the access control features for the Unix System V Enhanced Security product
. Led advanced OS development efforts, collaborated with industry and academic researchers

### Computer Scientist @ Compion/Gould
Jan 1984 – Jan 1988 | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area
Unix application and kernel development for Gould mini-supercomputers


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
Columbia University

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Engineering
Boston University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jozefchou

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Last updated: 2026-04-12