Frank Wang
Security Engineer at Surge AI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFrank Wang is a security engineer in San Francisco with 14 years of experience bridging academic research, venture investing, and hands-on security leadership at startups and scale-ups. He was the first security hire at dbt Labs and Headway and now secures systems at Surge AI, bringing a pragmatic blend of applied cryptography, distributed systems expertise, and product-focused threat modeling. Frank holds a PhD from MIT’s PDOS lab with multiple first-author papers and has deep startup investing experience at Dell Technologies Capital and Rough Draft Ventures, where he specialized in cybersecurity and infrastructure. He co-founded Cybersecurity Factory to mentor and accelerate early-stage security teams, a signal of his penchant for building ecosystems as well as products. Not immediately obvious: he alternates between rigorous research and investor-level strategic thinking, enabling him to both harden infrastructure and advise on security-driven go-to-market decisions.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyThe Harker SchoolBS with Honors Computer Science, BS with Honors Computer Science at Stanford University
Chinese
Github Skills (15)
golang9
certificate8
certbot7
letsencrypt7
python7
http6
acme6
dom5
acme-protocol4
cpp4
json-parser4
ai3
terraform-provider2
web-performance1
dbt1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
frankw2/libfss
Dec 2016 - Nov 2018
Library for performing Function Secret Sharing (FSS)
Contributions:79 commits, 6 PRs, 65 pushes in 1 year 10 months
fsssecret-sharingsharingsecretcryptography-library
frankw2/phd-thesis
May 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:87 commits, 71 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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