Summary
Ming-wei Shih is a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft specializing in Azure confidential computing, with seven years of industry experience built on a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech. His work focuses on system and software security, particularly Trusted Execution Environments like Intel SGX, where his research identified real-world vulnerabilities and practical mitigations. At Microsoft he has advanced OpenEnclave and Mystikos efforts to make confidential computing more accessible and production-ready. He combines deep academic rigor with hands-on engineering across platforms, having interned at MSR and developed networking features early in his career at Mozilla. Based in Redmond, he brings a rare blend of research-driven insight and shipping-oriented execution to cloud security challenges.
7 years of coding experience