Chengyong Lin
Principal Software Development Engineer at Fortinet
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolChengyong Lin is a Principal Software Development Engineer based in San Jose with 20+ years of experience blending networking research and cloud-native product engineering. He has driven SDN and router innovations at Huawei and now leads security and automotive features at Fortinet, bringing deep expertise in Kubernetes, AWS/GCP, TCP/IP stacks, and embedded security engines. A prolific inventor, Chengyong holds 90 granted patents (27 in the U.S.) including IETF-declared essential patents and has published in top venues like SIGCOMM and IEEE Infocom. He combines hands-on systems programming in C/C++/Python with product delivery—designing autoscaling cloud services, VNF management, and safety-focused automotive admin servers—and has mentored PhD researchers and influenced production adoption of distributed-database and log-analysis techniques. An EB1A green-card recipient, he pairs academic rigor with pragmatic engineering that translates novel research into deployed, customer-facing security products.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree COMPUTER APPLIED TECHNOLOGY, Master's degree COMPUTER APPLIED TECHNOLOGY at University of Science and Technology Beijing
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Github Skills (82)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
qfight/Pucker
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:24 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
jacklovepdf/jsadvanced
Mar 2017 - Sep 2018
some tips, conclusions, best practices for your day to day workflow
Contributions:91 commits, 107 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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