# Paul Hou

> Software Engineer at Figma

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

Web/frontend software engineer with experience primarily in user-facing applications.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Figma
Jan 2024 – Present

### Staff Software Engineer @ Patreon
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024

### Senior Software Engineer @ Uber
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | New York, New York

### Senior Product Engineer @ Oscar Health
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | New York, NY
I build shiny things.

### Software Engineer @ Facebook
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | Greater New York City Area
Product-oriented engineer on the Boosted Posts team, an interface within the Ads product that caters to new advertisers and SMB's.  Owner and point of contact for Ads targeting within Boosted Posts.

### Financial Software Developer @ Bloomberg
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013
Software and product developer for the Bloomberg Calendar (BCAL) function within the Bloomberg Terminal, an aggregated source of financial events, including earnings releases, M&A, and economic/holiday/sports dates.  Sole developer of BCAL from the latter half of its beta cycle to its public release and sales announcement.

### SIP Technical @ Sandia National Laboratories
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010
Designed and implemented a monitoring system for ground satellite stations using an event-task model and a distributed component hierarchy.

### Modem Software Intern @ Qualcomm
Jan 2009 – Jan 2009
Software developer on the Long Term Evolution (LTE) team - LTE refers to the set of standards propelling the 3G generation to 4G.  Developed internal tools for telecommunications algorithms and improved reporting capabilities of build servers.

### Software Design Engineer Intern @ Microsoft Corporation
Jan 2008 – Jan 2008
Networking programming within the Windows kernel.  Software engineer within the Core Operating Systems Division (COSD), modifying drivers within the transport layer (TCP/IP).

### Software Intern @ Zattoo
Jan 2007 – Jan 2007
Software infrastructure development within a peer-to-peer service.  Implemented detailed statistics storage and processing with C/PHP/MySQL.


## Education
### M.S.E. in Electrical Engineering
University of Michigan

### B.S.E. in Computer Science Engineering and Electrical Engineering
University of Michigan


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-05