Brian Hou Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Currently managing two teams - Account Integrity and Financial Fraud, totaling 13 engineers and several cross functional partners (operations, data scientists, data analysts, design, product managers)Financial Fraud handles preventing financial losses due to diverted payout instruments, incentive abuse, and fraudulent bad debt scams.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Airbnb Trust - Account IntegrityI'm currently leading a team of 10 engineers to defend against:- Fake Accounts- Account Takeovers- Credential Stuffing and Bot attacksWe are a product focused team using a combination of machine learning, heuristics, and vendors to defend against bad actors. Some of my roles as manager include individual career management, performance management, project management, and team technical guidance and leadership.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Airbnb Trust - Account Integrity- Protecting user accounts from account take overs.- Building new defenses to decrease fraud while reducing good user impact.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Building out the PagerDuty PlatformDesigning and delivering developer-friendly interfaces to make PagerDuty extensible for every customerFull stack developer with experience using Rails, Ember.js, Scala, and AWS tools like Lambda and API gateway.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Designs and implements tools to increase developer productivity.Utilizes cloud technologies such as Openstack to automate deployment of complex networked topologies as testbeds for developers. Created web application front end to provision these complex test beds and then run tests on them.Implemented a sandbox build system that gates code check in's using Gerrit code review. If a developer's code does not build and pass simple integration tests, it does not get checked in.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Writes object oriented programs in C# that auto generates code crucial for Graphics System Validation. Using Agile Development along with Test Driven Development to ensure good code quality and forward moving code progression.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Debugged Cisco Quad written in Java using Eclipse, making product more secure by isolating administrative functions as well as doubling administrative efficiency.Developed a tool that dynamically and automatically generates GUI, making changes to the administration GUI five times more efficient.

Designed secure authentication system for the website using Cakephp framework, limiting site content to paying users only.Implemented quick process of updating of posts on a page, allowing admin to change site content without any coding, decreasing the time spent updating simple text.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Initiated GUI capability for Steer Suite project using Qt, providing a more user friendly interface for a powerful steering analysis framework.

Implemented company-wide MediaWiki for updating product progress on Linux server, allowing for better coordination between the Chinese and American teams.Researched the open source advertisement client OpenX for Pictron to enable the company's website to generate revenue without dealing with a third party.