About

Rui Hou is a highly motivated and dedicated Staff Software Engineer with over 7 years of experience in RESTful Web Services, Server & Database Technologies, Cloud Computing, Kubernetes & Docker, CI/CD, and Android Development. He has proven his abilities in various projects and is comfortable working with a sense of urgency in an aggressive, multi-tasking environment. Currently working at Samsung Electronics as a Lead on Samsung Internet Rewards, Rui is responsible for designing and creating REST APIs on the server-side that handle 30M daily requests with an error rate of less than 0.1%. He communicates with different teams in multiple regions and time zones and is heavily involved in high-level product feature design, making releases and bug fixes, and constantly improving Samsung Internet Rewards. He has also integrated other Samsung services to build a better Samsung ecosystem and made UI changes on the client-side to ensure consistent user experience across devices. Rui has also led the team's CI/CD efforts, automating the process using CircleCI and stabilizing the team's most important build processes. He has created Docker images that reduce the running time of mobile APK builds by 50% and developed trybot that allows developers to test Gerrit patches for better code quality. In his past roles at Samsung, Rui led the development of the Quick Suggest feature and integrated Samsung Pay into it to show users attractive cashback/coupons on major websites. He also led the CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act) compliance efforts, making all projects owned by his team CCPA compliant and ensuring no user's PII (Personal Identifiable Information) was at risk. Rui holds a Master's degree in Computer Software Engineering from Northeastern University and a Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from East China University of Science and Technology. He is proficient in various technologies such as AWS, Mobile, Android, Docker, Kubernetes, Spring, Redis, MySQL, Web, Backend, and has a relevant experience of 9.53 years.