Michael Huo

Michael Huo

Cybersecurity • Cloud Infrastructure • AI/ML Platform Architect

Principal Engineer at Netskope | Ex-F5, Palo Alto Networks | 27+ Years

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Expertise

Principal-level architect delivering AI-Native Zero-Trust platforms, cloud-native infrastructure, and resilient enterprise systems at Netskope, F5, Palo Alto Networks. Deep expertise in GenAI security, ransomware resilience, SASE/SSE, and high-performance distributed systems.

Professional Experience

Netskope — AI-Native Zero-Trust & GenAI Security

Principal Engineer • Santa Clara, CA • Aug 2025 – Present

  • Architecting next-gen Secure Web Gateway (SWG) for SASE/SSE with full GenAI visibility
  • Reduced dataplane build time 95% (4h → 9min) via containerized ARM64 environments
  • Designed C++ Dataplane Event Nexus (DEN) using ZeroMQ + gRPC/Protobuf

Index Engines — Cyber Resilience & Agentic AI

Principal Engineer • San Jose, CA • Apr – Aug 2025

  • Built AI-driven CyberSense Cloud Management Plane for ransomware detection & recovery
  • Delivered cloud-agnostic platform (AWS ECS/EKS + Terraform)
  • Proposed 5 patents in cloud-native cybersecurity

F5 — SaaS Backend, DevSecOps & Bot Defense

Principal Engineer • San Jose, CA • Oct 2021 – Apr 2025

  • Architected Integrated Bot Defense backend on GCP/F5XC
  • Led GitLab + ArgoCD migration, reducing deployment time 40%

Airgap Networks — Zero Trust Network Access

Principal Engineer • Feb – Oct 2021

  • Designed ransomware kill-switch platform with Kubernetes

Palo Alto Networks — Next-Gen Firewall & ML Threat Detection

Senior Staff Engineer • Jan 2014 – Jul 2020

  • Architected cloud-native NGFW infrastructure
  • Led ML threat detection pipelines, improving accuracy 45%