Cesar Ghali
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCesar Ghali is a Senior Staff Software Engineer in Mountain View with 14 years of experience blending deep academic research in networked systems (Ph.D., UC Irvine) with production security engineering at Google. He has driven secure, large-scale backend work—contributing to high-profile open-source projects like grpc-go and Google’s Key Transparency—focusing on HTTP/2, ALTS, and robust API/server design. His background spans academia and industry, from content-centric networking research to hands-on production security and manager-level technical leadership. Comfortable across systems, networking, and cloud security, he brings a track record of turning security research into practical, testable infrastructure improvements. An unexpected thread through his career is consistent attention to tooling and testability, from refactoring HTTP handlers to improving protocol logging for easier debugging at scale.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of AleppoMaster of Engineering (M.Eng.) Communication and Computer Engineering, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Communication and Computer Engineering at American University of BeirutUniversity of California, Irvine
English, Arabic, French
Github Skills (14)
testing10
golang10
api-rest10
http-server10
rest-api10
rpc10
go10
api-design10
restful-api10
grpc10
protocol-buffers9
http9
microservices8
microservices-application8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
google/keytransparency
Jul 2015 - Aug 2017
A transparent and secure way to look up public keys.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:456 commits, 97 PRs, 48 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Cesar's contributions focused on implementing and refactoring the HTTP server skeleton. They made the `Handler` function generic, separated server logic into distinct files, and added V1 API logic to REST handlers. Furthermore, the user modified test files, including functions related to initializing and parsing URL parameters. These changes suggest the user was involved in the core logic of the API and testing.
securecryptographylooktransparentsecurity
grpc/grpc-go
May 2017 - Sep 2021
The Go language implementation of gRPC. HTTP/2 based RPC
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 27 commits, 48 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Cesar made several contributions to the gRPC-Go implementation, focusing on enhancements and bug fixes related to core functionality. Their work includes logging improvements in the HTTP/2 server to capture errors, populating peer objects for streaming RPCs, and adding ALTS (Application Layer Transport Security) code. Additionally, they streamlined ALTS API calls and addressed discrepancies in the ALTS protocol definitions.
golangnanoservicesrpcprotoprotobuf
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