Paul Ming
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarPaul Ming is a Senior Software Engineer based in Redmond with seven years of experience building secure, maintainable backend systems at Microsoft. He blends hands-on development with security engineering, contributing to high-profile open-source work on the dotnet/roslyn-analyzers project where he generalized tainted data analysis and added rules to catch deserialization and weak-crypto vulnerabilities. Comfortable refactoring complex static analysis logic, he focuses on practical, code-quality improvements that reduce real-world risk while keeping developer ergonomics in mind. Paul’s background suggests a strong grasp of .NET internals and a bias toward preventive, tool-driven security measures that scale across organizations. He brings a pragmatic engineering mindset that pairs production reliability with thoughtful contributions to the broader developer ecosystem.
7 years of coding experience
Github Skills (8)
security10
security-testing10
csharp10
dataflow10
security-scan10
dotnet-core10
netframework10
software-quality9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/roslyn-analyzers
Jul 2018 - Sep 2021
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Security Engineer
Backend Developer & Security EngineerContributions:4 releases, 50 reviews, 643 commits in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Paul's contributions focused on generalizing security analysis, introducing new rules to enforce secure coding practices, and improving code quality within the Roslyn analyzers project. They implemented a refactoring of the tainted data analysis functionality to enable it to support property-based sources and sinks and added new rules to detect potential vulnerabilities related to .NET deserialization, and the use of insecure cryptographic algorithms. Additionally, the user made code cleanup improvements.
dotpaul/roslyn-analyzers
Oct 2018 - Sep 2021
Contributions:32 commits, 294 pushes, 103 branches in 2 years 11 months
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