SUMMARY
I have more than six years of development experience in Python and research experience in time-series analysis, network security, cyber-physical system security, and machine learning. I developed an auto-scaling module to support millions of users around the world. I have reviewed 14 papers, published 11 papers and received 242 citations.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Languages: Proficient: Python, MySQL, InfluxQL; Prior experience: C++, C
Public Cloud: AWS, GCP, Aliyun
Libraries: boto3, google.cloud, scapy, numpy, pandas, PyTorch
Operating System: Cent OS, Mac OS, Debian, Fedora, Kali, Metasploit, Windows XP
Software and Tools: Perforce, Git, Wireshark
Other Skills: Traffic Analysis, Time Series Analysis, Time Series Prediction, Machine Learning
WORK EXPERIENCE
Senior Staff Software Engineer - Palo Alto Networks
May 2020 - Present
Designed and re-factored the auto-scale module to support multiple metrics from multiple data sources, including predictive metrics and real-time metrics. The new architecture gives SRE flexible choices to deal with a variety of scenarios without an increased workload. The new architecture allows multiple metrics to be evaluated without conflict.
Staff Engineer - Palo Alto Networks
Nov 2018 - Apr 2020
Re-architectured the
Global Protect Mobile Gateway auto-scale module. The new design reduced the communication and computation overhead and boosted the designed capacity by more than 1500 times. The new module successfully supported the dramatically increased load during the COVID-19 "work from home" transient period.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Computer Engineering
The Holcombe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Clemson University, USA
Graduated in Aug 2018
M.S. in Computer Science
Department of Computer Science, University of Texas-Pan American, USA
Graduated in Aug 2013
B.S. in Information and Computational Science
College of Mathematics, Jilin University, China
Graduated in June 2010
FEATURED PUBLICATIONS(11 publications in total as of June 2018)
Denial of service attack on tie-line bias control in a power system with pv plant
X Zhong, I Jayawardene, GK Venayagamoorthy, R Brooks
IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence
2017
Stealthy malware traffic-Not as innocent as it looks
X Zhong, Y Fu, L Yu, R Brooks, GK Venayagamoorthy
10th International Conference on Malicious and Unwanted Software
2015
Side-channels in electric power synchrophasor network data traffic
X Zhong, P Arunagirinathan, A Ahmadi, R Brooks, GK Venayagamoorthy
10th Annual Cyber and Information Security Research Conference
2015