Yu Hou
Staff Software Engineer at Slack
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolYu Hou is a Staff Software Engineer based in Seattle with 13 years of experience building developer-facing infrastructure and mobile products, currently leading work at Slack. He has deep hands-on expertise in language tooling, static analysis, and runtime upgrades, having driven a new typechecker and graph-based analysis at scale. Yu’s background spans Android and web development—from shipping client features and app rewrites to contributing enhancements to widely used open-source Android libraries. He co-founded a tech education hackathon for high schoolers and has a sustained interest in tech education, AR, data visualization, and digital rights. Comfortable across C++, Go, Java, Python, and modern JS stacks, he bridges low-level systems work with product-focused UX improvements. Outside work he publishes Android apps and pursues photography, geocaching, and outdoor adventures, reflecting a pragmatic maker’s curiosity.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
DEC Honours Pure & Applied Science, DEC Honours Pure & Applied Science at Marianopolis CollegeBachelor's Degree Software Engineering (BSE), Bachelor's Degree Software Engineering (BSE) at University of Waterloo
English, French, Chinese
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Github Skills (6)
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mobile-development10
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
iammert/MaterialIntroView
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Material Intro View is a showcase android library.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:13 commits, 4 PRs, 2 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Yu primarily contributed to the `MaterialIntroView` Android library, focusing on enhancing its functionality and user experience. Their commits included making the `dismiss()` method public, introducing an "idempotent" property to control intro view display behavior, and refactoring code to support rectangle shapes alongside circles for the target focus. The user also addressed a calculation issue related to the target shape's height.
android-library
TechRetreat/game
Jul 2015 - Nov 2016
Game for the Software Learnathon
Contributions:214 commits, 2 PRs, 190 pushes in 1 year 4 months
javascriptgame
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