"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."

Hao-Wei Chen is a multilingual cybersecurity practitioner and nonprofit entrepreneur.

陳浩維的主業為資安從業人員，副業為非營利組織經營者。

Private Sector Experience

Audible (US)

• Director, Information Security/ Aug 2023 – Present

Amazon.com (US and Japan)

• Global Insider Threat Response Leader, InfoSec / Mar 2022 – Aug 2023
• Head of Proactive Security and Subsidiary Security, Amazon Payments / Sep 2021 – Mar 2022
• Head of Vulnerability Research and Product Security, InfoSec / May 2019 – Sep 2021
• Information Security Officer, Amazon Japan / Oct 2018 – May 2019
• Senior Security Engineer at Attack and Research Team & Red Team, InfoSec / May 2016 – May 2019
• Security Engineer at Security Incident Response Team, InfoSec / Feb 2014 – May 2016

Trend Micro (Taiwan)

• Engineer at Threat Intelligence Manager (TIM) Team, Enterprise R&D Group / Dec 2011 – Mar 2012

UrMap.com (Taiwan)

• Software Engineer at R&D Department / Sep 2009 – Aug 2010

Public Sector Experience

Associate Adviser, Overseas Community Affairs Council (Taiwan) / Jan 2020 – Nov 2023

Cyber Warfare Advisor, Ministry of National Defense (Taiwan) / Oct 2021 – Sep 2023

Chair of Cybersecurity Advisory Committee in Overseas, National Security Council (Taiwan) / Feb 2020 – Feb 2021

Army Second Lieutenant at Military Software R&D Division, Ministry of National Defense (Taiwan) / Aug 2010 – Jul 2011

Youth Ambassador of Taiwan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Taiwan) / Jul 2009 – Aug 2009

Nonprofit Experience

Founder and President, Taiwan International Foundation (U.S.) / Feb 2023 – Present

Member of Alumni Leadership Council, Carnegie Mellon University's Information Networking Institute (U.S.) / Jul 2023 – Present

Member of Advisory Board, Fu Jen Catholic University Foundation (U.S.) / Jan 2020 – Present

Founder and President, NEX Foundation (U.S. and Taiwan) / Oct 2017 – Present

Board Member, Association of Hackers in Taiwan (Taiwan) / Apr 2015 – Present

Board Member, Taiwanese American Heritage Foundation (U.S.) / Dec 2019 – Sep 2022

Ambassador, Formosa Foundation (U.S.) / Jun 2013 – Jul 2013

Technical Volunteer for various of NGOs/NPOs in 🇵🇭 🇵🇼 🇰🇭 🇲🇳 🇹🇼 / Jan 2009 – Jul 2010

Security Community Building

Organizer and Review Board Member, Red Team Summit 2019 (U.S.) / Feb 2019

Founder, CRETIX Security (Hacker.org.tw) / Nov 2003 – Oct 2011

Internship and Academic Experience

Student Researcher, CERT, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University (U.S.) / May 2013 – Dec 2013

Technical Intern, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Japan) / Sep 2012 – Dec 2012

Security Specialist Intern, Security Assurance Group, Rakuten (Japan) / Aug 2012 – Sep 2012

Part-time Security Engineer, ICT Solution Department, Kobe Digital Labo (Japan) / Jun 2012 – Aug 2012

Research Assistant, Research Center for Information Technology Innovation, Academia Sinica (Taiwan) / Jul 2011 – Nov 2011

Education Background

Master of Science in Applied Informatics, Graduate School of Applied Informatics, University of Hyogo (Japan) / 2014

Master of Science in Information Security (with Full Scholarship), College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University (U.S.) / 2013

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Information Engineering, College of Science and Engineering, Fu Jen Catholic University (Taiwan) / 2010

Honors and Awards

Tartans on the Rise Award – by Carnegie Mellon University / 2024

Top Cybersecurity Leaders Award – by Security Magazine / 2024

Emerging Leaders under 40 – by Security Systems News / 2024

Ten Outstanding Overseas Young Persons Award of Taiwan – by Taiwan Government / 2021

Future Leaders under 40 – by CommonWealth Magazine / 2021

Outstanding Alumni Award – by Banqiao Senior High School / 2021

Top 10 Taiwan Young Leaders – by Crossing Magazine / 2020

Military Officer Excellence Award – by Army Command Headquarters / 2011

Outstanding College Youth in Taiwan / 2010

Phi Tau Phi Honorary Member / 2010

The First Youth Ambassador of Taiwan – by Taiwan’s President and Minister of Foreign Affairs / 2009

Technical Competitions

2nd place, FIRST Annual Conference CTF / 2016

Finalist, IDEAS Show Taiwan (Taiwan's top startup competition) / 2010

3rd, 4th, 5th places, Interuniversity Information Security Contest (Largest CTF held by Taiwan Government) / 2008, 2009 and 2007

3rd place, Hacks in Taiwan Conference CTF / 2008