Wes Hardaker
Internet Standards Engineer at Google
San Rafael, California, United States
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Top SchoolWes Hardaker is a seasoned computer scientist with 15+ years focused on network and protocol security, currently serving on ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee and working as an Internet Standards Engineer at Google. His career spans research and operational roles—most recently as a senior computer scientist at USC/ISI—where he concentrated on DNS, DNSSEC, BGP/IPsec security, and weak-signal intrusion detection. He pairs standards work at IETF/ICANN with hands-on engineering, contributing to open-source projects like Libreswan by improving builds, init-system integration, logging, and traffic statistics. Based in San Rafael, he balances technical leadership with entrepreneurship as the founder of a game studio and a photographer who mentors students, reflecting a rare mix of protocol-level rigor and creative practice. Colleagues know him for translating architectural security goals into deployable software and for spotting subtle operational risks that others miss.
15 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Electrical Engineering, Master of Science, Electrical Engineering at University of California, DavisDavis High School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (30)
ipsec10
makefile10
build-automation10
scripting9
qt9
git9
networking9
perl9
linux9
benchmarking9
bash9
permission9
configuration-management9
emacs9
shell9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
libreswan/libreswan
Dec 2012 - Dec 2012
libreswan
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:77 commits in 19 days
Contributions summary:Wes primarily contributed to the build and configuration aspects of the libreswan project. Their work included modifying Makefiles to allow for independent building of man pages and configuration files, enhancing build processes with the ability to pass additional arguments, and moving configuration definitions to safer files. They also worked on integrating with the system, including detecting the init system being used and updating the build to accommodate the system. Moreover, they improved logging and added traffic statistics, further improving the project's maintainability.
reactmusllibreswanlinuxbsd
frc1678/lime-plotter
Dec 2019 - Apr 2022
Contributions:159 commits, 64 pushes, 5 tags in 2 years 3 months
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