Melvin Tu
Co-Founder at Firewalla Inc
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolMelvin Tu is a cybersecurity-focused engineering leader and entrepreneur with 12 years of experience building large-scale distributed systems, real-time streaming platforms, and machine learning–driven security products. As Co-Founder of Firewalla, he made consumer IoT security accessible by combining AI threat detection, family-safe features, and a built-in VPN into a plug-and-play device backed by successful crowdfunding. Previously at Cisco he led and grew engineering teams (30+ engineers), architecting high-throughput security monitoring, CASB solutions, and machine-learning pipelines that materially reduced false positives. He brings deep hands-on expertise across streaming (Kafka/Storm), big data (Hadoop/Elasticsearch), and embedded/mobile stacks, plus a decade-long focus on security engineering. Based in Los Angeles, Melvin pairs product business development instincts with open-source sensibilities—his company’s Firewalla repo reflects that blend of practical consumer security and engineering transparency.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master High performance network, Master High performance network at Southeast University
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (112)
instagram10
doh10
exporter10
prometheus-exporter10
security10
telegram10
dns10
spotify10
parental-control10
monitoring10
rss10
twitter10
tiktok10
vpn10
wechat10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
firewalla/firerouter
Nov 2019 - Feb 2023
Contributions:409 reviews, 1186 commits, 1670 PRs in 3 years 3 months
MelvinTo/not_firewalla
Jan 2018 - Apr 2022
Contributions:1 review, 179 PRs, 1169 pushes in 4 years 3 months
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