Summary
Hung Le is a Principal Engineer based in Palo Alto with a strong background in designing and operating high-performance, secure distributed systems across networking, billing, and SaaS domains. With over three decades of engineering experience and 11 years in recent industry roles, he blends hands-on architecture and coding—particularly in Java, TLS/SSL, OAuth2/JWT, and message-based integrations—with operational ownership of production deployments. He has co-founded and scaled products used by major enterprises (DIRECTV, Best Buy, Staples) and led security and encryption efforts at MATRIXX, guiding Kubernetes transitions and payment integrations. Known for diagnosing critical performance and security incidents for customers and field teams, he pairs deep systems knowledge with pragmatic tooling (load testing, proxies, log analyzers) developed earlier in his career. Comfortable across the full stack from low-level high-availability clustering to cloud-native APIs, he brings a rare combination of legacy systems expertise and modern cloud/security practices.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BS EECS, BS EECS at University of California, Berkeley
Lowell High School, San Francisco
University of California Santa Cruz
English, Vietnamese