Xingsi Zhong
Senior Staff Engineer at Aurascape
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXingsi Zhong is a Senior Staff Engineer and founding engineer at Aurascape with a decade of experience building secure, scalable networking and cloud services. He blends deep academic rigor—a PhD in Computer Engineering and 11 published papers—with hands-on product impact at Palo Alto Networks, where he led work on Prisma Access and GlobalProtect. His expertise spans network traffic analysis, cyber-physical system security, and machine learning, and he has discovered and mitigated vulnerabilities in power system communication protocols. Comfortable across C/C++/Java and modern tooling like PyTorch, Wireshark, and Kali, he also has a history of designing automated DDoS mitigation that cut CPU usage by two-thirds in test. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he contributes to open-source projects and bridges research and production engineering to harden critical infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Engineering at Clemson UniversityMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at The University of Texas-Pan AmericanBachelor of Science - BS Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics at Jilin University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (21)
parser9
file-format8
python7
graphviz7
struct6
perl6
java6
csharp5
reverse-engineering5
cpp5
binary-data5
php5
lua5
ruby5
kaitai-struct5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sonusz/PhasorToolBox
Apr 2017 - Apr 2019
C37.118.2-2011 Synchrophasor Protocol Parser and Tools in Python3
Contributions:156 commits, 115 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years
pythonpython3synchrophasorparser
sonusz/platoon
Sep 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:26 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 4 months
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