Summary
Marshall Ha is a Distinguished Engineer with 13 years of experience building high-performance networking and security systems, currently leading architecture at Cradlepoint (Ericsson). He is fluent in Python, C, and Java, and has deep hands-on expertise from packet processing in Suricata IDS to designing resilient REST APIs and tuning PostgreSQL for large-scale telemetry. His background spans firewall and SDN platforms at Cisco and Vello through to threat detection, event correlation, and risk scoring engines at Cyphort and Juniper. Known for hardening systems against injection attacks and eliminating race conditions in analysis pipelines, he balances low-level systems engineering with pragmatic product-focused design. Based in San Jose, he pairs a UCLA computer engineering degree with advanced security training from Stanford, enabling him to translate security research into production-grade infrastructure. An engineer who moves fluidly between kernel-ish datapath concerns and database/schema optimization, he excels at making complex network security systems reliable and performant.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Professional Certificate Advanced Computer Security Certificate, Professional Certificate Advanced Computer Security Certificate at Stanford University (Stanford Center for Professional Development)
University of California, Los Angeles