Victor Hsieh
Software Engineer at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVictor Hsieh is a seasoned software engineer with 22 years of experience, based in Mountain View and currently at Google, where he has focused on system-level security and build engineering for Android. His open-source contributions to AOSP span bionic hardening, seccomp policy improvements, fs-verity integration, and build/release automation—work that reduces kernel attack surface and strengthens device integrity. He blends deep C/C++ systems expertise with practical build and release automation, often touching init scripts, keystore ownership, and signing pipelines. Victor’s background includes early industry experience at Trend Micro and a long academic foundation with BS/MS degrees from National Taiwan University. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic security-centered architecture that balances platform hardening with maintainable build workflows. An understated strength is his ability to navigate both low-level kernel-facing changes and higher-level build systems to deliver end-to-end platform improvements.
22 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Sciense and Information Engineering, Bachelor, Computer Sciense and Information Engineering at National Taiwan University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (22)
filesystem10
security-hardening10
c-language10
seccomp10
scripting10
system-design10
makefile10
security10
script10
android10
build-automation10
sh10
shell10
cprogramming-language10
git9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
aosp-mirror/platform_build
Oct 2017 - Nov 2022
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:66 commits in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Victor's contributions primarily involved modifying build configurations and scripts within the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). They added support for features like fs-verity build manifests across multiple partitions and also reverted this change later. The user also integrated and updated various build tools, including changes related to signing APKs and integrating new system configurations. They consistently focused on improving build processes and system configurations.
aosp-mirror/platform_system_core
Sep 2017 - May 2022
Role in this project:System Architect / Software Architect
System Architect / Software ArchitectContributions:88 commits in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Victor's contributions primarily revolve around fs-verity, a file system feature. Their work includes modifying Android init scripts (init.rc) to integrate fs-verity, allocating a UID for its key ownership within the keystore, and merging various changes related to fs-verity implementation. The commits demonstrate a focus on configuring and integrating security features at the system level. The user also refactored mini-keyctl utility.
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