Hui Cao
Global Security Operations Threat Research - (we Are Hiring)
Ilchester, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHui Cao is a security-focused engineering leader with over a decade of experience building and shipping threat detection, ML-driven malware research, and cloud-native security products across companies like TikTok, ByteDance, and Cisco Talos. He has deep hands-on expertise in SIEM, SOAR, XDR, network and endpoint protection, email security, and container security, and helped evolve Snort into a production-grade IDS/IPS used broadly in the industry. As an engineering manager and technical lead he combines product delivery with research rigor, applying machine learning to advanced threat detection and malware analysis. Hui’s background spans embedded systems and power optimization to large-scale security operations, giving him uncommon breadth across low-level engineering and enterprise security. He holds advanced degrees from Tsinghua University and The Ohio State University, and has a track record of launching successful open-source and commercial initiatives. Currently hiring and building global security operations and threat research capabilities, he invites collaborators who want to make systems measurably safer.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Automation, MS, Automation at Tsinghua UniversityPhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at The Ohio State University
Github Skills (10)
snort10
cpp9
dkim8
spf8
dmarc8
security7
authentication6
auth6
golang4
go2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
huicao/go-msgauth
Nov 2019 - Jun 2020
A Go library for DKIM, DMARC and Authentication-Results
Contributions:16 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
golangdmarcgo-libraryauthenticationdkim
snort3/snort3
Sep 2015 - Feb 2017
Snort++
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 6 comments in 1 year 5 months
cppsnort
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