Colin Cai
Principal Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolColin Cai is a Principal Software Engineer with over 17 years of deep experience in networking and security, currently shaping product and architecture at Palo Alto Networks in the San Francisco Bay Area. He’s been a key contributor across full product lifecycles—from board bring-up and device drivers to high-throughput packet handling and firewall features deployed at tier‑1 ISPs. Colin’s background blends hardware-near platform software expertise from Foundry/Brocade with security-focused feature design and support at F5, giving him rare end-to-end visibility into network equipment stacks. He pairs a Master’s in Computer Engineering from USC and a BS from Fudan with a pragmatic, customer-facing approach to shipping resilient systems. Colleagues rely on him for solving corner-case packet-processing and security integration problems that often evade higher-level engineers.
3 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Engineering Computer Engineering, Master of Computer Engineering Computer Engineering at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Science - BS Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Fudan University
Github Skills (34)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Creative0708/cubedaw
Nov 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:25 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 3 months
Iaminnocent4298/BalancedGame
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:28 pushes in 11 months
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