Summary
Cong Zheng is a security software engineer with roughly a decade of hands-on experience researching and productizing security for devices, mobile, IoT, and cloud services. He has driven vulnerability discovery and hardening for AR/VR at Meta Reality Labs, built malware/threat intelligence capabilities for AWS GuardDuty, and led WildFire production efforts and IoT firmware research at Palo Alto Networks. Comfortable shifting between deep research, hardware/firmware reverse engineering, and production engineering, he has published widely on real-world malware and zero-days and presented at major conferences. With graduate training from Georgia Tech and a PhD affiliation at Zhejiang University, he combines academic rigor with a proven track record of turning discoveries into scalable security products.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, 4.0, MS, Computer Science, 4.0 at Georgia Institute of Technology
Master’s Degree, computer science, 3.8, Master’s Degree, computer science, 3.8 at Peking University
Bachelor’s Degree, Information Security, 87.05, Bachelor’s Degree, Information Security, 87.05 at Huazhong University of Science and Technology
English, Chinese