Richard Fan
Security Engineer at ExpressVPN
Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Fan is a Security Engineer with a decade of cloud and security experience, currently shaping cloud governance and data protection at ExpressVPN and recognized as an AWS Security Hero. He specializes in making security on AWS practical and adoptable—helping teams migrate workloads, automate compliance, and deploy vulnerability management at scale. His background spans building CI/CD pipelines, redesigning monoliths into serverless/microservices, and automating continuous monitoring and remediation for regulated environments. Richard has contributed to AWS Nitro Enclaves work, reflecting hands-on expertise with trusted execution environments and data isolation. Based in Hong Kong, he combines developer-first architecture experience with incident response and threat modeling, making complex cloud controls easier for operators to run.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
English, Chinese
Github Skills (80)
gridview10
telemetry10
nitro10
monitoring9
lambda-functions9
aws-amplify9
api9
hsm9
cli9
high-performance9
authentication9
stream-processing9
aws-fargate9
aws-appsync9
aws9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
richardfan1126/nitro-enclave-python-demo
Nov 2020 - Oct 2022
Using Python to implement basic features on AWS Nitro Enclaves
Contributions:6 reviews, 22 commits, 17 PRs in 1 year 11 months
awspythonaws-ec2socket-programmingnitro-enclaves
richardfan1126/aws-nitro-enclaves-sdk-c
Nov 2020 - Dec 2023
This repo provides a C API for AWS Nitro Enclaves, including a KMS SDK that integrates it with attestation.
Contributions:47 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 1 month
apinitro-enclaveskmssdkattestation
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