Song Gao
Principal Secure Software Engineer at Zoom
San Ramon, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSong Gao is a Principal Secure Software Engineer in San Ramon with 13 years of experience building security-minded distributed systems and developer tools. He advanced from hands-on engineering at Keybase to leading secure software efforts at Zoom after Keybase’s acquisition, blending product-facing full-stack experience with deep systems and networking expertise. His open-source work includes a native Go TUN/TAP library, reflecting practical knowledge of low-level networking and cross-platform systems programming. With a doctorate focus in computer networks, he combines academic rigor with production delivery, mentoring teams to ship secure, auditable features at scale. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic design of secure infrastructure and for translating complex protocol-level details into reliable implementations.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Computer Science and Technology, Bachelor Computer Science and Technology at China University of GeosciencesDoctorate Computer Networks Computer Science and Software Engineering, Doctorate Computer Networks Computer Science and Software Engineering at Auburn University
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
2,048reputation
141kreached
15answers
3questions
go
top-5%
Github Skills (16)
tapi10
go10
networking10
darwin9
linux9
sys8
software-design8
system-design8
json6
browserify6
connections6
getopt6
nodejs6
javascript6
multithreading6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
songgao/water
Mar 2013 - Jun 2019
A simple TUN/TAP library written in native Go.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 61 commits, 36 PRs in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Song primarily contributed to the development of a Go library for creating and managing TUN/TAP network interfaces. Their work involved defining data structures for network protocols and ethertypes, as well as implementing functions for TAP and TUN interface creation, reading, and writing. They added platform-specific code for Darwin and Linux, focusing on setting up and interacting with the TUN/TAP devices.
golangmac-addressnetworkingnative-gotun-tap
songgao/stacktraces
Apr 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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