Vivian Ho
Staff Software Engineer at Stripe
California, Australia
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Top SchoolVivian Ho is a Staff Software Engineer based in California with 12 years of experience specializing in security-focused backend systems. Currently at Stripe, she brings deep practical expertise in secret management and credential workflows, evidenced by contributions to Lyft’s widely used Confidant project where she implemented value generation, SAML configuration, and hardened credential creation checks. Her background in bioinformatics and biomedical engineering (High Distinction, UNSW) gives her a rigorous, multidisciplinary approach to problem solving and system design. Known for clean refactors and documentation as much as for feature work, she blends production-grade engineering with a strong security mindset to deliver reliable, auditable systems.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Engineering (Bioinformatics) / M Biomed Engineering, 91.0 (High Distinction), Bachelor of Engineering (Bioinformatics) / M Biomed Engineering, 91.0 (High Distinction) at UNSW Australia
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Github Skills (14)
backend10
aws10
back-end-development10
python10
api-design9
restful-api9
saml9
dynamodb9
rest-api9
amazon-dynamodb9
api-rest9
security8
github-ci4
githubaction-workflow4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lyft/confidant
Mar 2016 - Oct 2018
Confidant: your secret keeper. https://lyft.github.io/confidant
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 28 commits, 27 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Vivian primarily focused on backend development within the Confidant project. Their contributions include implementing a value generator service, adding SAML configuration parameters, and developing documentation. They also made changes to credential management by including a documentation field and adding a check to prevent creating a service with an existing ID. Additionally, they refactored the code by updating the pynamodb boolean migration and ensuring correct service and blind credential sets.
secret-keeperkeeperlyftconfidantsecret
lyft/go-blessclient
Nov 2018 - Apr 2019
GO client to negotiate BLESS SSH certificates
Contributions:68 commits, 6 PRs, 51 pushes in 5 months
gossh
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