Xiaomin Cui is a Staff Engineer based in Hangzhou with 13 years of experience building high-performance middleware and global payment solutions for large e-commerce platforms such as TMALL Global, AliExpress and Lazada. At Ant Group she progressed from middleware technical expert to leading payment integrations for key accounts and cross-border merchants, applying deep expertise in RPC frameworks, connection management and message middleware. She is an active open-source contributor—helping maintain the SOFABolt remoting framework by fixing critical NPEs, improving connection pools, and driving releases—bringing practical improvements to a performance-sensitive Java/Netty project. With a master's in software engineering and early systems experience at IBM working on CICS and OSGi class-loading issues, she blends rigorous systems thinking with production-facing product work. Colleagues rely on her for pragmatic bug-driven improvements that harden distributed systems under real-world load.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Software Engineering, 3.57, Bachelor, Software Engineering, 3.57 at University of Electronic Science and Technology
SOFABolt is a lightweight, easy to use and high performance remoting framework based on Netty.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:4 releases, 43 commits, 51 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Xiaomin primarily contributed to bug fixes, including resolving potential NPE issues and problems within test cases. They modified core Java code related to connection management and connection pools. Additionally, the user was involved in releasing a new version of the project, updating the pom version, and fixing PMD issues.
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