Summary
Yanlin Wang is a seasoned technology executive based in the San Francisco Bay Area with over two decades of experience building and scaling cloud-native, big data, and security platforms. Currently VP of Advanced Technology at Splashtop, he previously led major initiatives at Fortinet—founding and heading FortiSASE SIA and FortiAnalyzer BigData—and has a strong track record of turning research-grade analytics and AI into production-grade security services. He has repeatedly led cloud transformations and unified identity, analytics, and platform efforts as a VP of Engineering and Chief Architect across startups and enterprise software firms. Yanlin combines hands-on architecture and engineering management with strategic advisory roles on multiple boards, bringing both product focus and M&A/technical due diligence experience. He is comfortable shipping distributed systems at hyper-scale, having built teams and platforms spanning streaming, Hadoop/Spark ecosystems, and cloud-native analytics. A detail often overlooked: his career blends early embedded and telecom engineering roots in China with modern cloud-and-AI-driven security innovations, giving him a pragmatic, end-to-end systems perspective.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) at Southeast University