Kehe Hou

Kehe Hou

Kehe Hou

Principal Software Development Engineer

Principal Software Engineer focused on Networking and Cloud Backend. Expert skills in C/C++ Programming over Linux ; Extensive background in Network Protocols (L2/L3/L4/L7) and Security; Productive and Hardworking; Self-motivated and Team Player. Expertise and Skills • Programming Languages: C/C++, Python, Java.

Experience

FortinetPrincipal Software Development Engineer

2022 — Now

2022 — Now

Sunnyvale, California, United States

Working on the product FortiADC (Application Delivery Controllers).

Focusing on load balancer features such as HTTP proxy server and Lua scripting.

SymantecPrincipal Software Engineer

2018 — 2021

2018 — 2021

Technologies: CASB (Cloud Access Security Broker), TLS, HTTP web proxy, IPsec, Cloud Security, ICAP (Internet Content Adaptation Protocol).

Products: CASB for Cloud/SaaS Applications Security and Audits.

Tools: C/C++/Python over Linux, Kubernetes, Docker, Grafana, GCP, AWS, HAProxy, git, etc.

F5 NetworksSenior Software Engineer

2014 — 2018

2014 — 2018

San Francisco Bay Area

Technologies: SSL Proxy, OpenSSL, OCSP, both Data Plane and Control Plane.

Products: BIGIP box either as Load Balancer (Reverse Proxy) or Secure Gateway (Forward Proxy).

Tools: C/C++ over Linux, Perforce (P4)

Bitglass, IncLead Software Engineer

2013 — 2014

2013 — 2014

San Francisco Bay Area

Technologies: Email Proxy Server at protocol level (IMAP/SMTP), OpenSSL.

Products: Cloud security services for SaaS.

Tools: C/Python over Linux, Git

Apple Inc.Senior Software Engineer

2011 — 2013

2011 — 2013

Cupertino, CA

Technologies: TCP/UDP Socket Programming, OpenSSL, HTTP, JSON, Cassandra, Splunk logging.

Products: Apple Push Notification and iMessage backend servers running in cloud system.

Tools: C/C++/Java/LUA/Nodejs over Linux, Apache Subversion.

Education

Georgia Institute of Technology

MS

Peking University

MS

Tsinghua University

B.S