Ricardo Shih is a seasoned engineering leader focused on threat detection, AI, and machine learning, currently serving as Director of Engineering at Fortinet after scaling ML teams at TruEra as a founding engineer. He brings over a decade of hands-on experience building ML models, big-data pipelines, distributed systems, and production-grade web and networking software, with a Master’s in Machine Learning from UC San Diego. Ricardo has repeatedly moved between individual contribution and management, shaping product-focused ML platforms and operationalizing model insights for security and enterprise use cases. Based in Mountain View, he combines startup founding grit with enterprise delivery experience, and is notable for translating deep technical work—multi-threaded systems and networking protocols—into practical threat detection features at scale.
5 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Bachelor's degree Major: Computer Science Minor: Mathematics, Bachelor's degree Major: Computer Science Minor: Mathematics at University of Maryland
Anupam Datta, Matt Fredrikson, Klas Leino, Kaiji Lu, Shayak Sen, Ricardo Shih, Zifan Wang
Contributions:1 review, 4 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 month
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Ricardo Shih - Director Of Engineering Threat Detection, AI & ML