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Bear Hsiung

@bearhsiung

Sr. staff software engineer at Netskope who improved NPA failover reliability and is building TLS tools for post-quantum upgrades.

Taiwan

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25+ years building production systems from bare-metal board bring-up to cloud-scale distributed security platforms, with a track record of taking complex systems from scratch to production — on time, at quality. 33 granted US patents in TLS protocol security, cryptographic key management, certificate handling, secure session management and network-security inspection. Left a Sr. Staff Engineer role at Netskope in April 2026 to build post-quantum cryptography systems, tlslane, ticketconnect and tlscensus.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Sr. Staff Software Engineer

Netskope

Jan 2024 - Apr 2026 (2 years 3 months)

Developed NPA features, performance improvements, and resolved customer issues. Reduced service policy size to lower per-connection overhead and added explicit proxy support to the service agent.

C C++Go Java Python TLS IPSEC Network programming Linux Kernel eBPF Virtualization Kubernetes AWS GCP Microservice Architecture Security CI CD Debugging Troubleshooting

Advisory Software Engineer

IBM

Jan 2016 - Dec 2023 (7 years 11 months)

Developed the edge gateway system running in on-prem network and executed workload from the SaaS. Built the system behavior analysis for the cloud with SysFlow and eBPF.

C C++Go Java Python TLS IPSEC Network programming Linux Kernel eBPF System Programming SQL NoSQL AWS GCP Containers Kubernetes Virtualization Microservice Architecture Security CI CD Debugging Troubleshooting

Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Ruckus Wireless

Oct 2007 - Jul 2010 (2 years 9 months)

Built the Hotspot (WISPr) service for access point and controller, improved performance with fast path in kernel module, and deployed the service to the field. Developed dynamic VLAN support for Wi-Fi controller and WAPI support for both access point and controller.

C C++Embedded Systems Ethernet WiFi TCP IP SNMP WISPr Routing And Switching Network programming Linux Kernel Driver Debugging Troubleshooting

Senior Software Engineer

Motorola

Aug 2005 - Jul 2007 (1 year 11 months)

Built the set-top box platform software from scratch, developed the glue layers and integrated HAL, JVM and MHP. Developed the secure key management and the key provisioning system.

C C++Embedded Systems Linux Kernel Driver Security Debugging Troubleshooting

Senior Software Engineer

ASUS

Mar 2002 - Jul 2003 (1 year 4 months)

Built the Ethernet switch from scratch, brought up the board, developed Flash memory file system, Ethernet device driver for network processor, STP for stacked switches, and ported SNMP daemon with MIBs. Ported IKE daemon and IPsec driver to separate cores of network SoC and developed ad hoc kernel and inter-processor communication.