Willie Jeng

San Francisco, California, United States

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Willie Jeng is a software engineer and graduate student researcher with six years of experience building scalable backend systems, AI/ML platforms, and security infrastructure. Currently splitting time between AI/ML platform work at Roblox and speech-language model research at UT Austin, he brings practical production experience to research problems. He has shipped high-throughput account security pipelines at TikTok and contributed a policy engine using Open Policy Agent to the well-known terrascan project, adding Kubernetes and cloud provider integrations. Willie’s background blends computer science, linguistics, and mathematics from UCLA and other institutions, giving him a strong foundation in language-aware systems and formal reasoning. Based in San Francisco, he’s equally at home authoring robust backend services and tinkering with open-source security tooling. Outside of work he prefers snowboarding, a hint at a preference for fast-moving, high-adrenaline challenges.

5 years of coding experience

3 years of employment as a software developer

Computer Science and Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering at National Chiao Tung University

Associate's degree, Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, Associate's degree, Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics at Irvine Valley College

High School Diploma, High School Diploma at University High School

University of California, Los Angeles

Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin

New Taipei Municipal Panchiao Senior High School

English, Chinese, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, taiwanese hokkien

Stackoverflow

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Github Skills (18)

opa10

terraform10

open-policy-agent10

terraformer10

go10

rego10

infrastructure-as-code10

security-txt9

kubernetes9

security9

devops9

kubernetes-pods9

security-scan9

cloud-security8

facebook-graph-api6

Programming languages (4)

HCLShellGoRuby

Github contributions (5)

tenable/terrascan

Aug 2020 - Mar 2021

Detect compliance and security violations across Infrastructure as Code to mitigate risk before provisioning cloud native infrastructure.

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer

Contributions:103 reviews, 110 commits, 60 PRs in 7 months

Contributions summary:Willie's primary contribution focused on implementing the policy engine for the terrascan project, specifically integrating the Open Policy Agent (OPA) to evaluate Rego files. They built the initial policy engine, enabling it to read and evaluate Rego files, including template-based ones. Furthermore, the user was also responsible for integrating the project's functionality with Kubernetes, and adding cloud provider support.

cloudsecurityrisksastcompliancecloud-security

tenable/accurics-action

Jun 2020 - Jun 2021

The Accurics GitHub Action scans Infrastructure as Code files checked into the respository to help ensure that cloud resources are secure and compliant from creation.

Contributions:35 releases, 29 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year

awsaccuricsrespositorysecurecloud-resources

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