Ben Hua
Senior Staff Software at Palo Alto Networks
California, United States
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Top SchoolBen Hua is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in California with 12 years of experience building high-performance network processing, firewall, and load-balancing platforms at Palo Alto Networks, F5, Cisco, and others. He combines deep systems programming expertise—TCP/IP, Linux kernel and driver work, PCI/SMBus, and I/O/memory management—with hands-on debugging and performance tooling (GDB, OProfile) to solve production-critical issues. Comfortable across C/C++, Python and Java, he has driven datapath and control-plane features, platform evaluations, and cross-functional coordination with QA, hardware, and product teams. Ben also contributes to open-source projects, having implemented and maintained Android UI/CI enhancements for an emoji library, showing a readiness to span embedded, kernel, and application layers. Colleagues consistently praise his communication and mentorship, and he brings a practical blend of low-level systems rigor and product-focused delivery.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Software Engineering option 2008, Bachelor of Computer Science, Software Engineering option 2008 at University of Waterloo
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
rockerhieu/emojicon
Jan 2014 - Aug 2018
A library to show emoji in TextView, EditText (like WhatsApp) for Android
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 92 commits, 14 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the development and enhancement of an Android library focused on displaying emojis in TextViews and EditTexts. Their initial work involved setting up the foundational code and importing necessary libraries. Subsequent commits refined the UI components, added documentation, and automated the publishing process of snapshot versions. They demonstrated proficiency in modifying and extending the core functionality of the library, with some interaction with CI/CD.
androidtextviewwhatsapp
rockerhieu/flutter_loader
Feb 2021 - Aug 2022
A Flutter package for simplifying resource loading
Contributions:17 commits, 2 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 year 5 months
flutterresource-loadingasync
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