Xinran Wang
CTO at Obsidian Security
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXinran Wang is a seasoned security and engineering executive with two decades of experience building anti-fraud, malware detection, and cloud/mobile security systems, now serving as CTO of Obsidian Security. He rose from chief security scientist at Shape—where he invented core countermeasures, founded the threat research team, and helped drive an acquisition by F5—to senior leadership roles at F5 and Palo Alto Networks, where he led the creation of Wildfire. A prolific researcher and inventor, he holds 20 US patents, has published work cited over 1,000 times, and has presented at top security conferences including Black Hat and USENIX. Xinran pairs deep domain expertise and academic rigor (PhD in Computer Science from Penn State) with hands-on product and engineering execution, fostering customer-centric, high-performance teams that consistently ship market-leading products. Beyond enterprise security, he contributes to open-source projects like Hedgehog Lab, bringing GPU-accelerated scientific computing and rich browser-based tooling to JavaScript developers—a sign of his enduring interest in developer-facing innovation.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer science, PhD Computer science at Penn State UniversityBachelor's Degree Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Electrical Engineering at Tsinghua University
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Github Skills (22)
javascript10
solidity10
blockchain10
smart-contracts10
web-development10
react10
hardhat10
tex9
pwapp9
codemirror9
data-visualization8
html8
computer-science8
data-visualisation8
css8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lidangzzz/How-to-run
Sep 2022 - Oct 2022
立党零基础转码笔记
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 20 pushes, 2 branches in 23 days
Contributions summary:Xinran primarily contributes to smart contract development within the repository. Their work includes setting up and configuring the Hardhat development environment for Solidity smart contracts, as seen in the changes to `hardhat.config.js`. They are also actively involved in the creation of smart contract components, as evidenced by modifications to `Lock.sol` and the inclusion of typechain factory files. These actions suggest a focus on core back-end development, specifically for blockchain applications.
computer-sciencepython
Hedgehog-Computing/hedgehog-lab
May 2020 - Jan 2023
Run, compile and execute JavaScript for Scientific Computing and Data Visualization TOTALLY TOTALLY TOTALLY in your BROWSER! An open source scientific computing environment for JavaScript TOTALLY in your browser, matrix operations with GPU acceleration, TeX support, data visualization and symbolic computation.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 1 review, 166 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Xinran appears to have been primarily focused on front-end development within the Hedgehog Lab repository. Their commits demonstrate work on UI elements, including the addition of a service worker for offline capabilities and modifications to the public index.html file, as well as changes to the React application's structure and components. They also implemented components like CodeMirror for code editing and integrated MathJax for formula rendering.
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