Kiet Ho

Kiet Ho is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Onlook, an open-source developer tooling startup currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. He leads the technical architecture and software engineering efforts for the company's open-source visual editor. The platform was successfully incubated and developed during the Winter 2024 batch of Y Combinator. As an immigrant and experienced software engineer, Ho specializes in building user interface inspection software and frontend web infrastructure optimized for modern frameworks like React and Tailwind CSS. Outside of his primary professional engineering work, he is an active open-source software advocate and a dedicated martial arts practitioner who frequently manages chronic training-related shoulder injuries. His current professional focus remains entirely on scaling Onlook's core platform to streamline frontend development workflows and expand the broader open-source developer ecosystem globally.