Alan Lei
Technical Leader at Cisco
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlan Lei is a technical leader with 11+ years at Cisco and a 30-year career building high-performance networking and security systems from router simulation to enterprise-grade access control. He architects secure, scalable integrations—most notably a data-sharing framework that brought 50+ new partners—and has a track record of improving performance (10x burst-rate gains, 60% CPU reduction) through thoughtful refactoring. Alan blends protocol design, messaging, and auth systems with pragmatic product focus, inventing programmatic account flows and wire-speed data routing used in financial and carrier environments. A recipient of multiple Cisco Achievement Awards, he champions simple, maintainable code and cross-organizational standards that enable third‑party collaboration and measurable customer impact.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Sussex
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Github Skills (10)
rest9
cisco9
websocket9
sdk8
alibabacloud7
golang6
tyrus6
programming-language4
go4
alibaba4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cisco-pxgrid/pxgrid-rest-ws
May 2017 - Jan 2023
Cisco pxGrid with REST and WebSocket
Contributions:8 reviews, 64 commits, 10 PRs in 5 years 8 months
websocketwebsocketsrestpxgrid
cisco-pxgrid/cloud-sdk-go
Apr 2022 - Feb 2025
Cisco pxGrid Cloud SDK for the Go programming language
Contributions:18 releases, 19 reviews, 54 PRs in 2 years 10 months
golangpxgridcloud-sdksdkalibaba
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