Summary
Mingliang Pei is a Distinguished Engineer and seasoned architect with over two decades of experience designing and scaling mission-critical security SaaS and platform services for enterprise customers. He led the architecture of industry-leading systems such as Symantec/VeriSign VIP authentication and the Managed PKI service that issued over one billion certificates, and continues to guide CloudSOC product architecture at Broadcom. His expertise spans Identity, PKI, KMS, DLP, CASB, IoT security and applied cryptography, with hands-on implementation experience across microservices, AWS, and a broad stack including Java, C/C++, Python, Kafka and NoSQL. A pragmatic inventor and standards contributor, he holds 15+ patents and co-authored widely adopted RFC6238 for time-based OTP, and has driven product security and compliance across 100+ releases. Comfortable translating deep technical designs into simple executive narratives, he also has a rare track record of bootstrapping large-scale SaaS businesses while cutting operational cost and complexity through thoughtful re-architecture. Based in Palo Alto, he blends rigorous academic training in mathematics and computer science with sustained product and engineering leadership.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
BS Ph.D Mathematics, BS Ph.D Mathematics at Peking University