George Gao
Director at Fitch Ratings
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGeorge Gao is a cloud and cybersecurity leader with nine years of industry experience now directing technology efforts at Fitch Ratings from New York. He combines deep hands-on expertise from roles at J.P. Morgan, Microsoft, and Dell EMC—spanning Azure/AWS, DevOps, large-scale network management, DDoS mitigation, and security R&D using AI/ML—to deliver resilient, production-grade systems. His background includes PhD-level research in network intrusion and traceback, and practical contributions to the Win2D open-source project improving XAML integration for GPU-accelerated graphics. Known for bridging research and engineering, he excels at translating novel algorithms and automation into operational pipelines that improve detection, monitoring, and root-cause analysis across physical and virtual infrastructure.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technologygraduate student(admitted) Computer Science, graduate student(admitted) Computer Science at Nanjing UniversityBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Zhejiang University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (11)
uid10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
ui-design10
front-end-development10
xaml10
windows-runtime10
windowsrt10
winrt10
direct2d9
uwp9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/Win2D
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
Win2D is an easy-to-use Windows Runtime API for immediate mode 2D graphics rendering with GPU acceleration. It is available to C#, C++ and VB developers writing apps for the Windows Universal Platform (UWP). It utilizes the power of Direct2D, and integrates seamlessly with XAML and CoreWindow.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 4 days
Contributions summary:George primarily focused on enhancing the Win2D library to seamlessly integrate with Xaml islands. Their work involved modifying core control classes to utilize XamlRoot for visibility and DPI management, falling back to CoreWindow functionality when XamlRoot isn't available. They updated internal tests to incorporate XamlRoot, demonstrating a commitment to thorough testing and ensuring the library's compatibility with modern UI frameworks. The changes incorporated improvements for the CanvasAnimatedControl, CanvasVirtualControl, and CanvasControl classes.
windows-runtimeimmediate-moderuntimeaccelerationwindows-universal
gegao18/windows-uwp
Aug 2020 - Jun 2022
Conceptual and overview content for developing Microsoft Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 year 9 months
xamldotnetuwpdevelopingwindows
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