User:Helen Gao

Helen Gao has worked in the field of information security since 1991. Helen has worked as an application developer, program manager, and software architect. Her employment history includes work at a financial institution, a market research company, a high-tech device manufacturer and a software company.

Helen is a senior architect at TIBCO Software Inc. Her job duties include the design and development of complex event processing software. The protection of information security in such systems is challenging, due to their strict performance requirements in terms of high event throughput and low processing latency. Helen welcomes the challenge and uses the knowledge she obtained from OWASP to manage project lifecycles.

Helen has taught mathematics, physics and computer science at colleges in both United States and China.

Helen graduated from Sun Yat-sen University in China. She continued her studies of physics and computer science after she came to the United States. Helen holds master's degrees in both physics and computer science.

Helen founded the Long Island chapter of OWASP in 2006. Besides volunteering for OWASP, she also serves as the president of Sun Yat-sen University Alumni Association. Helen help founded the Long Island School of Chinese.