Xin Li
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXin Li is a Senior Software Engineer based in Mountain View with eight years of experience building reliable, production-grade backend and front-end systems at companies including Google, Hive, and AWS. At Google they focus on authentication and developer tooling, contributing to high-impact open-source projects such as the Firebase Admin Node.js SDK and Google Auth Library for Node.js where they added OIDC code flow, downscoped client support, and robust bug fixes. Xin pairs a practical engineering mindset with front-end polish—contributing UI fixes and RTL improvements to FirebaseUI—to ensure secure, user-friendly developer experiences. Their background includes machine learning work and digital signal processing research, giving them a strong foundation in both algorithmic thinking and systems engineering. Collected from academic training at Fudan and Stanford and hands-on cloud auth contributions, Xin brings a rare mix of low-level auth expertise and attention to UX detail.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at Fudan UniversityMaster’s Degree, Master’s Degree at Stanford University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (21)
javascript10
firebaseui10
testing10
oid10
user-authentication10
authentication10
ui-design10
jscript10
uid10
front-end-development10
google-cloud10
nodejs10
firebase10
back-end-development9
web-components9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
firebase/firebaseui-web
Jun 2020 - Oct 2021
FirebaseUI is an open-source JavaScript library for Web that provides simple, customizable UI bindings on top of Firebase SDKs to eliminate boilerplate code and promote best practices.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 60 commits, 28 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Xin primarily focused on updating and maintaining the user interface elements within the FirebaseUI-web repository. Their commits addressed issues related to accountchooser.com warnings, RTL spinner fixes, and tenant button configurations. The contributions included modifications to various JavaScript files, including configuration, testing, and UI elements, ensuring the proper display and functionality of the user interface.
firebaseuijavascript-libraryboilerplateboilerplate-codejavascript
firebase/firebase-admin-node
Jul 2020 - Nov 2021
Firebase Admin Node.js SDK
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 reviews, 60 commits, 17 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Xin primarily focused on enhancing the authentication features of the Firebase Admin Node.js SDK. Their contributions involved implementing OIDC code flow support, which included modifying configurations, resolving comments, and adding tests. They also addressed a bug related to disabled users and session cookie verification. Additionally, the user updated comments in index files and introduced error code enhancements.
firebase-adminfirebase-databaseadminfirestorenode-js
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