Summary
Alan Hou is a pragmatic engineering leader and founder with 9 years of experience building high-throughput, production-grade systems across startups and Google. As Co-Founder and CTO of OWOW he’s focused on creating a HackerRank-style platform for data annotators, after driving measurable improvements in Google Ads, Google Voice, and earlier startups acquired by SailPoint and Shopify. He’s repeatedly shipped microservices and models that processed thousands of events per second and improved observability and cost/latency metrics, blending research rigor from advanced degrees with hands-on execution. Based in Palo Alto, he balances family life with a coder’s curiosity, bringing both startup grit and large-scale product experience to data and infrastructure challenges.
9 years of coding experience