Go Hosohara is a veteran freelance IT engineer based in Osaka with three decades of hands-on experience across Unix and Linux server administration, embedded and web application development, and network design. He combines practical systems expertise (RedHat, Ubuntu, CentOS, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS) with full-stack development skills in C, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, and Go, and strong database experience in PostgreSQL and MySQL. Recently focused on 5G-related projects, he also brings security-centric craftsmanship—contributing to the widely used wolfSSL project by hardening TLS code, adding tests, and improving state reporting. As owner of Go West Inc. he delivers end-to-end solutions from infra and certificates/OpenSSL to application logic and automation. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic problem-solving and for bridging embedded, cloud, and security concerns in production environments. His long-term, evolving portfolio reflects both deep legacy systems knowledge and current cloud-native practices.
The wolfSSL library is a small, fast, portable implementation of TLS/SSL for embedded devices to the cloud. wolfSSL supports up to TLS 1.3 and DTLS 1.3!
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Contributions:17 commits, 7 PRs, 104 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Go primarily focused on enhancing the security aspects of the wolfSSL library. Their contributions involved implementing and testing the `wolfSSL_DES_ecb_encrypt` function, which included writing test cases. The user also addressed code review suggestions by modifying existing code and addressing memory issues. Furthermore, the user updated the code to accurately reflect and report SSL/TLS state transitions.
wolfSSL (formerly CyaSSL) is a small, fast, portable implementation of TLS/SSL for embedded devices to the cloud. http://www.wolfssl.com
Contributions:154 pushes, 8 branches, 3 comments in 1 year 5 months
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