Yamin Tian
Principal Engineer at NeuShield, Inc.
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolYamin Tian is a Principal Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with a deep, hands-on background in cybersecurity and system-level engineering spanning over two decades. He specializes in kernel and system extension development across Windows and macOS—authoring Windows minifilter and WFP drivers and macOS kernel/system extensions—paired with C/C++/Obj-C expertise, performance tuning, and low-level debugging. Yamin has driven product and technical leadership at security-focused firms including NeuShield, Elastic, Endgame, and FireEye, bringing both threat-aware engineering and product ownership to complex realtime and networked systems. Known for reverse engineering, TCP/IP and realtime protocol work, he blends kernel-mode craftsmanship with practical product delivery. An unobvious strength is his sustained focus on realtime OS and protocol behaviors, which informs robust defensive designs and high-performance instrumentation.
6 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
No.1 Middle School attached to Central China Normal UniversityMaster of Science (MS), Master of Science (MS) at Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Github Skills (25)
observability10
kibana10
elasticsearch10
endpoint10
elastic10
visualizations10
security-hardening9
filebeat9
security9
common-schema9
elastic-common-schema9
logstash9
documentation8
heartbeat8
integrations8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Trinity2019/SimplePcap
May 2020 - May 2021
A simple demonstration of the macOS Network Extension
Contributions:21 commits, 10 PRs, 45 pushes in 11 months
macosnetwork-extension
Trinity2019/ecs
Apr 2023 - Dec 2023
Elastic Common Schema
Contributions:52 pushes, 6 branches in 7 months
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