Zane Ma
Assistant Professor at Oregon State University
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZane Ma is an Assistant Professor and researcher in computer science based in Atlanta with 11 years of combined industry and academic experience spanning software engineering and security-focused systems research. He earned an A.B. in Chemistry and Computer Science from Princeton and a PhD in Computer Science from UIUC, then progressed from industry roles at startups and fintech to postdoctoral research at Georgia Tech before joining Oregon State University. Zane brings full-stack engineering chops from early roles at OpenFin and Betterment and has contributed to notable open-source tooling—improving HTTP handling and redirect support in the widely used zmap/zgrab scanner. His work blends rigorous research with practical systems development, frequently refactoring protocol stacks to make tooling more robust and maintainable. Colleagues describe him as someone who moves smoothly between clean experimental design and production-quality code, with a knack for surfacing subtle protocol behaviors. He is particularly adept at turning low-level network insights into reliable, reusable software components.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) at Princeton University
Github Skills (6)
http10
go10
api-design9
restful-api9
rest-api9
api-rest9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
zmap/zgrab
Oct 2015 - Oct 2016
**DEPRECATED** This project has been replaced by https://github.com/zmap/zgrab2
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:110 commits, 35 PRs, 145 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Zane primarily worked on improving the HTTP functionality of the project, specifically adding support for handling HTTP redirects. The contributions involved modifying existing code to follow redirects, with work focusing on the underlying connection and response handling. In addition, they refactored code to better represent the HTTP request/response chain. Further work included adding support for the "HEAD" HTTP method.
zmap
teamnsrg/zcrypto
Apr 2018 - Feb 2022
Liberal Go TLS + X.509 Library for Research
Contributions:6 PRs, 16 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 10 months
golangtls
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