Cheng-mean Liu
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCheng-mean Liu is a Principal Software Engineer and seasoned technical leader with over 25 years of hands-on experience and a decade-plus focused on cloud and confidential computing at Microsoft. He has built and led large engineering teams to deliver industry-first Azure Confidential Computing offerings (Intel SGX, AMD SNP, Confidential GPU) while continuing to contribute deep technical work—such as core container and Host Compute Service shim improvements and security fixes to the Open Enclave SDK. His background spans low-level systems, device drivers, media/audio systems and modern cloud security, giving him a rare combination of kernel/driver expertise and cloud-native architecture skills. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he pairs product-focused engineering with a practical customer-oriented view, and his open-source contributions demonstrate both operational DevOps savvy and enclave security know-how.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at National Chiao Tung UniversityMaster of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at Stony Brook University
Github Skills (15)
c1710
intel-sgx10
linux10
go10
c1110
containerization10
networking10
security10
git8
build-automation8
dockers7
system-administration7
docker7
logging7
bash6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
openenclave/openenclave
Jul 2018 - Sep 2019
SDK for developing enclaves
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:120 commits, 41 PRs, 296 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Cheng-mean primarily contributed to fixing a security regression issue related to the Open Enclave SDK's tools for the Linux platform. The user's commits demonstrate a focus on Intel SGX capabilities and flexible launch control, indicating expertise in secure enclave development. The user also made code modifications to manage the signing of enclaves with a focus on ensuring that all builds would sign their respective output
trusted-execution-environmentdevelopingteesdkconfidential-computing
microsoft/hcsshim
Jun 2017 - Jan 2018
Windows - Host Compute Service Shim
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:93 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 7 months
Contributions summary:Cheng-mean primarily contributed to the core GCS (Host Compute Service Shim) functionality, focusing on the bridge client implementation. They added and modified core logic related to container creation, process execution, and process signaling. The user also worked on fixing logging issues and making improvements to utilities used in the environment. Furthermore, they demonstrated knowledge of network configuration within the utility VM context.
shimwindowshostcompute
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