Gaukаs Wang
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolGaukas Wang is a cybersecurity-focused software engineer and PhD candidate with a decade of experience building censorship-circumvention and network security systems from research prototypes to production components. Based in Boulder, he splits time as a graduate researcher and teaching assistant at CU Boulder, where he helps run computer security and concurrent programming courses while advancing projects that evade network censorship. His open-source contributions include low-level TLS ClientHello mimicry work (utls) to blend traffic fingerprints—an indication of hands-on expertise in protocol-level evasion and interoperability. Prior industry work on CPaaS infrastructure and systems research in RDMA and WebRTC transport give him a practical grounding in real-world networking and high-performance systems. Colleagues value him for turning cryptic protocol details into robust, testable implementations that operate under adversarial network conditions.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder
Japanese, deutsche, Italian, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (10)
mtls10
go10
tls1210
tls1310
libtls10
handshake9
crypto9
obfuscation9
golang8
javascript6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
refraction-networking/utls
Apr 2022 - Nov 2022
Fork of the Go standard TLS library, providing low-level access to the ClientHello for mimicry purposes.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:32 releases, 81 reviews, 8 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Gaukаs primarily contributed to the `utls` library, a fork of the Go standard TLS library, focusing on TLS fingerprinting and client hello modifications. They fixed issues related to Google Parrots, which likely involved adjusting ClientHello specifications to mimic specific Chrome versions. The user also synchronized the project with upstream changes, adding support for the `getrandom` syscall on Solaris and clarifying documentation regarding context usage, and implemented the ALPS extension.
golangclienthelloja3tlscrypto
NETOUCHER/WHMCS_Shadowsocks_Admin
Feb 2017 - Jan 2021
A provisioning module work together with Shadowsocks-manyuser. In another word, a WHMCS module version of SS-Panel.
Contributions:1 release, 73 commits, 5 PRs in 3 years 11 months
provisioningsshpanelss-panelshadowsocks
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