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Xinran Wang

Chief Technology Officer (formerly EVP of Engineering) at Obsidian

Sunnyvale, California, United States

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Ken ChenaultunlockedXinran: together at IBM (2003–2004)
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Xinran: together at Shape Security

About

Xinran Wang is CTO at Obsidian Security, with approximately 20 years of experience in security and anti-fraud research and development. He previously served at Shape Security, where he joined in 2013 as chief security scientist, built the threat research team, and later became VP of Engineering, and was earlier an engineering manager at Palo Alto Networks, where he led development of the Wildfire product. He holds 20 US patents in areas including malware and bot detection and cloud and mobile security, has presented at security conferences such as Black Hat and Virus Bulletin, and holds bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University and a PhD in computer science from Penn State University.

Chief Technology Officer (formerly EVP of Engineering) at Obsidian

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Obsidian's investors · 11

Artisanal VenturesTiburonCRESCENT COVE CAPITALSan Francisco · since 2026Dnx VenturesTokyo · $1M – $5M checksfama Ventures, LLCBostonGreylock PartnersSan Francisco · $100K – $200M checks · since 2026GV (Google Ventures)Mountain View · $250K – $50M checks · since 2022IVP (Institutional Venture Partners)San Francisco · $15M – $75M checks · since 2022Menlo VenturesSan Francisco · $1M – $20M checks · since 2026Norwest Venture PartnersMenlo Park · $10M – $30M checks · since 2022SYN VenturesWest Palm BeachWingPalo Alto · $200K – $20M checks · since 2022

Co-founders at Obsidian

MWMatt W.
Matt W.Founder
GCGlenn Chisholm
Glenn ChisholmCo-Founder; former CEO, now Chairman & Chief Product Officer
BJBen Johnson
Ben JohnsonCo-Founder & CTO
MWMatt Wolff
Matt WolffCo-Founder & Chief AI Officer

Experience

  1. Obsidian SecurityCTOcurrent2025 — present
  2. Obsidian SecurityEVP of Enginnering2022 — 2025San Francisco Bay Area
  3. F5Vice President Of Engineering, Security Product Group2020 — 2022Santa Clara, California
  4. Shape SecuritySVP of Engineering (acquired by F5 for $1bn)2013 — 2020Santa Clara
  5. Palo Alto NetworksManager, Malware research/Wildfire2009 — 2013
  6. Penn State UniversityResearch Assistant2004 — 2009State College, Pennsylvania Area
  7. IBMsoftware engineer2003 — 2004
  8. asiainfosoftware engineer2001 — 2003

Skills & more

Python21C14Algorithms6Network Security36Perl7Linux36C++12Distributed Systems5Java5Cloud Computing18TCP/IP2Security30
+12 moreData MiningUnixVirtualizationAndroidXMLSoftware EngineeringMachine LearningSoftware DevelopmentMalware AnalysisArchitectureNetworkingShell Scripting
  • Structuring Machine Learning Projects — Coursera
  • Neural Networks and Deep Learning — Coursera
  • Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization — Coursera

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Who is Xinran Wang?
Xinran Wang is CTO at Obsidian Security, with approximately 20 years of experience in security and anti-fraud research and development. He previously served at Shape Security, where he joined in 2013 as chief security scientist, built the threat research team, and later became VP of Engineering, and was earlier an engineering manager at Palo Alto Networks, where he led development of the Wildfire product. He holds 20 US patents in areas including malware and bot detection and cloud and mobile security, has presented at security conferences such as Black Hat and Virus Bulletin, and holds bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University and a PhD in computer science from Penn State University.
Where does Xinran Wang work?
Xinran Wang is Chief Technology Officer (formerly EVP of Engineering) at Obsidian.
Where did Xinran Wang go to school?
Xinran Wang studied at Penn State University (PhD, Computer science); Tsinghua University (Bachelor's Degree, Electrical Engineering).

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Jim GoetzPartner at Sequoia CapitalGeorge ManuelianAdvisory Board Member at Rembrandt Venture PartnersEliza ChamberlainSenior Associate at Jump CapitalVicky BooksMarketing Director at Grove VenturesAvi ShulmanPartner at StageOne VenturesJoe HorowitzManaging General Partner at Icon Ventures

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