Carter Ho
@carterho1
Senior software engineer specializing in scalable cloud systems and AI-enabled backends.
What I'm looking for
I am a senior software engineer with extensive experience designing and operating high-scale cloud-native systems, primarily on Azure and AWS. I have architected services handling tens of thousands of requests per second, implemented distributed caching, and standardized IaC to achieve high availability and low latency.
I build AI-enabled middleware and integrations—using FastAPI, LangChain, and Azure OpenAI—to deliver domain-specific insights and reduce model hallucination, and I modernize identity and security with OAuth2/OpenID Connect and RBAC for multi-tenant environments. I also design cross-platform interoperability solutions using gRPC and sidecar patterns to bridge legacy and modern stacks.
I mentor engineers in Clean Architecture and SOLID principles, lead migrations and observability efforts that improve reliability and compliance (HIPAA/GDPR), and consistently drive performance and cost improvements across databases, caching, and asynchronous service patterns.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Architected high-scale Azure services handling 50k+ RPS and achieved 99.99% uptime; built Python AI middleware (FastAPI, LangChain, Azure OpenAI) to reduce model hallucination and modernized identity/security with OAuth2/OpenID Connect and Azure AD.
Senior Software Engineer
Universal Health Services
Oct 2017 - Apr 2021 (3 years 6 months)
Led Cerner Millennium integrations using HL7 v2 and REST APIs to improve clinical data retrieval and migrated legacy data to AWS (S3/RDS), while enforcing HIPAA-compliant security with OAuth2 and MFA.
Software Engineer
ScienceSoft
Jul 2012 - Aug 2017 (5 years 1 month)
Developed C#/.NET backend services for high-volume product catalogs, integrated Stripe/PayPal to achieve 98% payment success, and improved MySQL performance by 20% via query tuning and caching.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
The University of Texas at Arlington
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
2008 - 2012
Completed a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science focusing on software engineering and systems development from 2008 to 2012.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
GitHub
Kubernetes
GitHub Actions
DB
MySQL
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Gmail
Node.js
Django
Spring Boot
.NET Core
Next.js
.NET
ASP.NET Core
Tailwind CSS
Redis
Terraform
Azure DevOps
Jira
Vue.js
React Query
Webpack
JavaScript
Java
ASP.NET
Blazor
Kafka
FastAPI
PayPal
GraphQL
gRPC
Elasticsearch
Serverless
Zustand
pytest
JUnit
Mockito
OAuth2
SQL
Citrix
Azure Cosmos DB
LangChain
Pinecone
Cosmos
Bicep
Middleware
Availability
Location
Authorized to work in
Job categories
Skills
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