Jie Zhang

Senior Director, Engine Development at Fortinet

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

About

Experience

  • Fortinet (22 yrs 6 mos)
    • Senior Director, Engine Development
      Apr 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 3 mos

      Lead advanced research teams (ARTs) to : * discover, and research the latest cybersecurity threat; * build customer-driven and technology-driven prototype projects and pilot implementation; * deliver innovation projects or products to diverse Fortinet products and solve or mitigate the attacks; Focus on 0-day threats (including malware, vulnerability, and intrusion) detection, prevention, and protection with new technology and AI. Recently projects: * CLIO - SAST/SCA engine * OSS supply chain detection * Lineage - Malware Genetic Analysis and Detection System

    • Director, Engine Development
      May 2021 - Apr 2022 · 1 yr

      Lead ART (Advanced Research Teams) to : * seek, discover, and research the latest cybersecurity threat; * build customer-driven and technology-driven prototype projects and pilot implementation; * deliver innovation projects or products to diverse Fortinet products and solve or mitigate the attacks; Focus on 0-day threats (including malware, vulnerability, and intrusion) detection, prevention, and protection with new technology and AI.

    • Senior Manager, Engine Development
      Feb 2018 - May 2021 · 3 yrs 4 mos

      Lead ART (Advanced Research Team) to response for: * Research and track new threat; * Research and innovate our productions (FortiSandbox, AV Engine and etc); Currently, I am working on automated threat detection, cyber attack defence, malware clustering and detection with Machine Learning; Major project: PallasNet - An aggregator for variant our own novel malware detection technicals.

  • Electrical Engineer at LG Electronics
    Jul 2003 - Jul 2004 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Air Condition PCB design and development