Sze Tan
Principal Systems Engineer (P5) at Cloudflare
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSze Tan is a Principal Systems Engineer with 14 years of experience building secure, high-scale infrastructure at Cloudflare, where he has driven platform security initiatives including HashiCorp Vault adoption and now shapes systems strategy at the P5 level. Based in San Francisco and grounded in a strong ECE/Computer Engineering background from UIUC, he combines production engineering rigor with research-driven curiosity—his GitHub persona frames him as a “network plumber” focused on censorship circumvention and privacy tooling. Early work spans autonomous vehicle networking, embedded/CI automation, and web security research, showing a pattern of turning experimental prototypes into operational improvements. Notably, he has experience automating large-scale course tooling and forensic/security tooling, and he brings a quantitative, measurement-first mindset from roles as diverse as national service ammunition surveillance to cloud platform security.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Primary School Leaving Examination English Chinese Mathematics Science Higher Chinese, Primary School Leaving Examination English Chinese Mathematics Science Higher Chinese at Maha Bodhi SchoolMaster of Science - MS Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignGCE Advanced Level Computing Physics Mathematics Economics General Paper Project Work, GCE Advanced Level Computing Physics Mathematics Economics General Paper Project Work at Hwa Chong Institution
English, Chinese
Github Skills (59)
service-mesh10
kubernetes10
data-center10
consul10
infrastructure10
service-discovery10
api-gateway10
vault10
golang10
arrows10
secrets9
distributed-systems9
ssl-certificate9
raft-consensus-algorithm9
cloud-native9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
szechuen/OpenDuty
Mar 2012 - Aug 2012
Contributions:123 commits in 4 months
djangomanagement-systempythonduty
szechuen/ldif_csv
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:15 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 13 days
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