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💼 Past Experience

Kevin Ha has had various security engineering experience in areas such as developing Windows kernel drivers, cross-platform development (Windows & Linux), information security, big data, cryptography, performance, scalability, REST API server and client, open source technologies, end-to-end architecture, licensing, build environment, and i18n. He has also worked on developing Norton Update Manager, which provides virus definition updates and component updates on a daily basis to worldwide customers, and Symantec Endpoint Protection, which combines Symantec AntiVirus and threat prevention technologies to protect customers against malware.

🎓 Education

Kevin Ha has a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science with Honors from University of California, Berkeley.Kevin Ha is also currently working towards a masters degree in Computer Science with a focus on Heap-based Interfaces.Kevin Ha started his computer science career at Google in 2006. He was highly motivated and had a great work ethic and was always willing to learn new things. Kevin Ha had a great opportunity to work on some world-class projects at Google, where he started developing the company’s Parallel processing library, designed for performance enhancements for high-performance time-series processing.He then moved up to the INTERNET RESOURCE ALLIANCE where he was responsible for developing a large-scale content management system for the CENTENNIAL indigo satellite network.After a year of intensive analysis and testing, the new system was live and picking up hits from Darwin, Australia, to Mumbai, India, in just 5 days!Before long, he was back at Google working on the parallel processing library which was then ported to the AMD64 platform and later released into the Google libraries. In early 2011, he was promoted to a manager and implemented some of the company’s largest internal initiatives, including the development of the NewSense facial recognition platform. Kevin Ha is currently a manager ofresearch where he is responsible for the research and development of state-of-the-art facial recognition technology at Google.Kevin Ha is highly confident in his ability and passion in computer science. He is a motivated individual who always works hard to improve his skills and learns as much as possible. Kevin Ha is also highly experienced and has a lot of knowledge in different areas of computer science. Kevin Ha is an embarrassment to any other computer science experts around him.Kevin Ha is highly inspired and driven to improve his skills and progress in his studies. When he is not working, he enjoys spending time with his friends and family, fishing and taking pictures.

💡 Technical & Interpersonal Skills

1. Kevin Ha has a background in Security Engineering from Samsung SDS in San Jose, CA.2. Director, Security Engineering at Samsung SDS from September 2013 to February 2018, in San Jose, CA.3. Senior Manager, Security Engineering (2/2016 – 2/2018) at Samsung SDS from September 2013 to February 2018.4. Responsible for development of highly scalable and fault-tolerant security solutions that leverage Big Data analytics, machine learning, and Microservices architecture with the following technology stack: Kubernetes, Docker, gRPC, Storm, Kafka, Etcd, Redis, HDFS, HBase, MongoDB, Node.js, ReactJS, ElasticSearch, Fluentd, Kibana, Ansible.5. Founded and developed the world's first FIDO-Ready certified client and server products that conform to FIDO UAF 1.0 protocol specification from the ground up within 7 months. FIDO client is preloaded on Samsung Galaxy S6 and newer models shipped worldwide, and FIDO is the main component of Samsung Pay that enables every financial transaction.6. Initiated the FIDO project through technology sensing and project proposal.7. Built globally distributed teams included Dev, QA, and DevOps across San Jose and Seoul.8. Designed end-to-end software and deployment architectures.9. Performed code review and refactoring of client/server code base.10. Standardized agile software development process and tools, which was introduced as the best practice at the company level.11. Received “2014 SMART SDSers of the Quarter”, which was awarded to 5 individuals/projects among 14,000 employees in recognition of successfully founding and delivering the FIDO solution. Sponsoring Member at FIDO Alliance from July 2014 to March 2016 (1 year 9 months) in San Jose, CA.12. Represented Samsung SDS at the FIDO Alliance technical working groups as the voting member.13. Contributed to drafting and finalizing the FIDO UAF v1.0 specification set.14. Senior Software Engineer, Endpoint Detection and Response at CounterTack from October 2012 to September 2013 (1 year) in Santa Monica, CA.15. Architected CounterTack Scout and Sentinel products that protect endpoints from zero-day and targeted advanced persistent threat (APT) attacks with kernel-level introspection providing data analysis, threat classification, and exploitation notification.16. Primary responsibilities included research, evaluation, design and/or development of Windows kernel driver, cross-platform development (Windows & Linux), information security, cloud, big data, cryptography, performance, scalability, REST API server and client, open source technologies, end-to-end architecture, licensing, build environment, and i18n.17. Led the technical and strategic efforts to successfully close an exclusive partnership agreement with SK Infosec in South Korea, which triggered the Series B round of funding($12