Erkang Zheng
Founder at Cloud Security Alliance
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolErkang Zheng is a serial founder and hands-on engineer with nine years of startup experience and a long career leading security and product engineering across enterprises like IBM, Fidelity, and Cisco. He built JupiterOne into the first cloud-native, graph-based security platform used by organizations such as Reddit and Databricks, earning multiple industry leadership awards along the way. Now based in the Bay Area, he’s founding Ariso to combine AI, coaching, and autonomous engineering to help people and teams reach their potential. Erkang blends deep technical chops in cloud, DevOps, and cybersecurity with product-first entrepreneurship and a track record of turning operational pain points into scalable SaaS. He also contributes to academia and the industry as an advisor and strategic board member at NC State and with the Cloud Security Alliance. An engineer who still codes, he focuses on building AI that augments human growth rather than replacing it.
8 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Computer Science, M.S., Computer Science at North Carolina State University
Chinese
Github Skills (97)
security10
procedures10
hipaa10
markdown10
neo4j10
pci10
pci-dss10
cli10
confluence10
google-gsuite10
policies10
aws-cloudformation10
js-client10
nist10
amazon-web-services10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
JupiterOne/data-model
Apr 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:17 reviews, 89 commits, 40 PRs in 2 years 5 months
JupiterOne/graph-knowbe4
May 2019 - Dec 2020
A graph conversion tool for https://www.knowbe4.com
Contributions:2 reviews, 22 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 6 months
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