Xiaorui Cui is a Machine Learning Engineer with a decade of cross-disciplinary engineering experience spanning machine learning, systems, and front-end development, currently based in Mountain View. She transitioned from a PhD in Materials Engineering into software roles at Applied Materials and Google before joining ByteDance, blending deep analytical rigor with production-grade engineering. An active open-source contributor, Xiaorui has notable Vue 3 work—refactoring core emit/event handling in vue-test-utils and building a "mini-vue" to demystify Vue 3 internals—demonstrating both low-level framework insight and pragmatic UI component engineering. She writes clean, maintainable TypeScript and Composition API code, with a track record of improving testability and developer tooling for UI libraries. Colleagues describe her approach as principled—consistent with her GitHub motto “坚持做正确的事” (insist on doing the right thing)—which shows up in thoughtful refactors and reliable integrations across teams.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Materials Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Materials Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Peking University
A Vue.js 3.0 UI Toolkit for IT Education. Build with JS&TS
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:2 releases, 131 reviews, 656 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Xiaorui's contributions primarily revolve around developing and refactoring UI components using Vue.js 3.0 and TypeScript within the Element3 UI Toolkit. They integrated and tested Vue Test Utils, and also added tests for the Button and Link components, further enhancing the component's usability. The user also refactored the Button and Link components to use the Composition API, improving maintainability.
Contributions:1 review, 9 commits, 4 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Xiaorui primarily contributed to refactoring and optimizing the event handling and emit functionality within the Vue Test Utils library. They removed deprecated code related to ComponentOptionsMixin and ShapeFlags, streamlined the emit process, and improved the handling of emitted events. Their work involved modifying core files like `src/emit.ts`, `src/mount.ts`, and `src/vueWrapper.ts` to provide better integration with Vue's devtools and improve event capturing.
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Xiaorui Cui - Machine Learning Engineer at ByteDance