# Athena Wong

> Software Engineer at RedSeal, Inc.

Location: Cupertino, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/athenawong

Software engineering professional with experiences in developing cloud products for Big Data and  software security. Understand customers’ internal and external needs and bring in real-world perspectives into software development.

Deep understanding of Big Data, computer security, especially email, endpoint and network security. Extensive experiences in working in cloud computing and large scale distributed systems. Experienced in developing, maintaining SaaS products and supporting them in data center.

Proven track record of building and managing capable development teams to create enterprise grade SaaS products. Hands-on  development manager with strong technical background from many years of software engineering. Outstanding project planning and execution to launch new products within tight schedule and under limited resources (Trend Micro's Hosted Email Security and SaaS Email Pre-filter) . Able to manage both local and remote teams to co-develop enterprise or cloud products.

Excellent troubleshooting and problem solving skills and enjoy solving daily challenging problems.

Specialties: Big Data, software security, building scalable, fault tolerant enterprise or SaaS products.

Solid knowledge of: Java, C/C++, Python, J2EE/Java EE, TCP/IP, SMTP, SQL, Windows, Linux, cloud computing, virtualization, AWS

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ RedSeal, Inc.
Jan 2018 – Present | San Jose

### Technical Leader - Cisco Cognitive Foundation @ Cisco
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Jose, CA
- Core member in developing real-time telemetry, automated ML based workload tuning for cloud big data infrastructure. Deploy and develop product in AWS with use of RDS, Lambda, EC2, S3, Kinesis.
- Owner of DB component and metric collecting unit of Hadoop, Spark cluster. Responsible for DB schema design and bigdata cluster management
- Participated in a scalable data streaming product that allowed enterprise data to be transferred and processed between microservices with Kafka consumer-producer message flow

### Principal Software Engineer @ Hadoop BigData of Elastic Cloud Infrastructure, EMC
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Palo Alto, CA
- Key developer in EMC's brand new cloud compute analytics and data warehouse project using EMC's software-defined storage and open source software Docker, Zookeeper, Jersey, Ambari.
- Developed product's RESTful WS (JAX-RS) and Hadoop (Hortonworks) cluster provisioning
- Oversaw RedHat OS security for EMC Data Computing Appliance (DCA), a data warehouse running Hadoop & GreenPlum Database. Implemented and supported DCA security and upgrade components

### Solution Architect for Web Services Integration @ Trend Micro
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 | Cupertino
- Focused on RESTful Web Services integration for cloud security products. Designed and implemented customized solutions based on understanding of customers' cloud and virtualization (VMWare & Citrix) infrastructure  and their needs, using Java, Swing, Eclipse, Spring.
- Developed and managed in-house virtualization infrastructure for technical product evaluations
- Provided competitive analysis of competitor products and interacted with external labs for product evaluations.

### Sr. Development Manager @ Trend Micro
Jan 2008 – Jan 2011
- Built and managed a team of 14 senior developers (local and remote)  to develop a new email security in the cloud (SaaS) from ground up for service providers
- Mentored, motivated direct reports and worked with them on their career growth
- Worked with internal groups to successfully deploy Trend Micro email security data centers (400m emails/day)
- Involved heavily in technical architecture design, hands-on Linux, MySQL environment and Ruby and script coding. Responsible for feature planning, schedule and resources management
- Managed product development life cycle and coordinated activities with QA, performance/scalability, documentation, custmer support and project management

### Technical Lead @ Trend Micro
Jan 2007 – Jan 2007
-Project lead for email security hosted service. Responsible for architecture design, feature planning and implementation with a team of 6-8 engineers.
-Designed and developed email security hosted service with Java, J2EE, JSP, C/C++, MS SQL and Postfix MTA
-Maintained data centers for the hosted service, performed software deployment and provided customer support.

### Sr. Engineer @ Trend Micro
Jan 2004 – Jan 2006 | Cupertino
- Key developer for company's first email security hosted service. Responsible for both Web application and back-end email handling.
- Worked on Web GUI for enterprise gateway email security application. Used C/C++, Java, JSP, J2EE, MVC, MS SQL.

### Sr. Software Engineer @ Skystream Network
Jan 2000 – Jan 2003 | Sunnyvale
Windows kernel network driver developer for SkyStream's main media router that mixed MPEG video/audio and IP traffic into MPEG-2 transport stream and broadcasted over satellite

**Additional experiences include: Sr. Software Engineer at Hewlett-Packard and Tandem, developed kernel networking and I/O systems with C/C++.


## Education
### Electrical and Computer Engineering in Computer Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/athena-wong-53832a29

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Last updated: 2026-04-10