Xin Fan
Escalation Engineer
Yokohama, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolXin Fan is an escalation engineer with a decade of experience building and hardening embedded Linux and cloud services, currently supporting Azure Databricks at Microsoft from Yokohama. Formerly an embedded Linux developer at Fujitsu and a project and people lead at Neusoft Japan, he blends hands-on vulnerability remediation with team and project management. His open-source security work includes backporting CVE fixes for wpa-supplicant within the widely used OpenEmbedded core, showing a practical focus on mitigation and supply-chain robustness. Holding a master’s in IT from Kyushu University and a bachelor’s from Harbin Institute of Technology, he pairs academic grounding with real-world incident resolution skills across both device and cloud stacks.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Information Technology, Master’s Degree, Information Technology at Kyushu UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering at Harbin Institute of Technology
Github Skills (11)
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vulnerabilities10
porting10
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cve10
cprogramming-language10
openembedded10
vulnerability10
security10
networking9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
openembedded/openembedded-core
Jun 2015 - Sep 2017
The official Git repository is at https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/.
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:51 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Xin's contributions focused on addressing security vulnerabilities (CVEs) within the wpa-supplicant project. They primarily backported patches to fix multiple vulnerabilities, including those related to buffer overflows and incorrect payload handling in the EAP-pwd protocol and WPS. The user's work involved identifying and integrating fixes from external sources, indicating a focus on security hardening and vulnerability mitigation within the OpenEmbedded core.
git-repositoryopenembedded
fan-xin/Resume
Jul 2016 - Jun 2019
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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