Ben Chang
Security Expert at Alibaba Cloud
Hangzhou City, Zhejiang, China
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Chang is a security expert with 11 years of experience specializing in cloud and web application firewalls, currently protecting large-scale infrastructure at Alibaba Cloud. His career includes senior roles building WAF engines at Tencent and Huawei, demonstrating deep hands-on expertise in cloud-native threat defense. With a master's in Information Assurance and a GitHub handle "h4ckn1ght," he blends academic rigor with a practical hacker mindset to harden systems against real-world attacks. Based in Hangzhou, he pairs developer-level coding skills with security architecture experience, often focusing on scalable, production-ready protections. Outside work he’s a guitar enthusiast, hinting at a creative approach to problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Bachelor's degree, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Wuhan UniversityMaster's degree, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Master's degree, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Tianjin University of Technology
Github Skills (22)
waf9
modsecurity9
nginx9
iis9
parser8
logging8
web-application-firewall8
monitoring7
http7
docker-container7
apache7
owasp6
docker6
programming-language6
go5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
whuben/Useful-Scripts
May 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:21 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
whuben/Shellcode
Apr 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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