Ian Hou
Software Dev Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolIan Hou is a software development engineer with 7 years of experience building reliable, scalable infrastructure and customer-facing systems, currently contributing to AWS CDK at Amazon and authoring open-source fixes and validations for a widely used IaC framework. He combines cloud engineering practice with product-minded backend work—improving logging, reducing MTTD for SLA violations, and implementing safer UI error interfaces—while driving documentation and onboarding improvements across teams. His background spans machine learning pipelines, serverless mobile apps, and automation workflows that eliminated manual data-entry roles, demonstrating breadth from ML models to operational tooling. A former USAR Cyber Protection Brigade team lead and Dartmouth graduate in Computer Science and Chinese, he mentors technical teams under high-stakes conditions and brings disciplined operational security experience to developer tooling.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science and Chinese, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science and Chinese at Dartmouth CollegeHigh School Diploma N/A, High School Diploma N/A at East Brunswick High School
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Github Skills (26)
aws-cdk10
typescript10
typescript-types10
infrastructure-as-code10
typescripts10
cloud-infrastructure9
aws9
nodejs9
rds7
amazon-sqs7
csharp7
net7
aws-sqs-fifo7
dotnet-core7
asp-net7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
aws/aws-cdk
Jan 2025 - Oct 2025
The AWS Cloud Development Kit is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:43 reviews, 18 PRs, 66 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Ian primarily contributed to the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) project by addressing issues related to infrastructure-as-code. They fixed grammar issues in Lambda warnings, corrected a misspelling in RDS cluster properties, and upgraded .NET versions for CDK projects. The user also improved the validation process for RDS and SQS resources, ensuring that multiple validation errors are presented to the user. They also addressed an issue in the CDK import operation by ensuring bundling for NodeJS Lambda functions.
awscloud-development-kitcloud-infrastructureinfrastructure-as-codetypescript
iankhou/theplacesyoullgo
Mar 2022 - Mar 2025
An interactive map for Dartmouth students and alums to know each others' locations and whereabouts.
Contributions:9 PRs, 29 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years
locationsmapinteractive-mapdartmouth
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