Xintong Chen
Cloud Developer at SAP
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Summary
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Top SchoolXintong Chen is a cloud-native developer with four years of experience building secure, reliable backend systems, currently contributing as a Cloud Developer at SAP after a three-year tenure as a Cloud Software Engineer at Intel. She brings practical security focus to large open-source projects, notably contributing certificate verification, error-handling refactors, and test improvements to the widely used Istio service mesh. With a Master’s in Integrated Circuit Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and a bachelor’s in Automation, she combines hardware-aware rigor with cloud software craftsmanship. Colleagues know her for keeping dependencies up-to-date and turning subtle stability issues into tested, maintainable fixes.
4 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Automation (CV), Bachelor's degree, Automation (CV) at 西安交通大学Master's degree, Integrated Circuit Engineering (IC), Master's degree, Integrated Circuit Engineering (IC) at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Github Skills (9)
testing10
certificate10
go10
cert10
security10
kubernetes-pods9
error-handling9
kubernetes9
service-mesh8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
istio/istio
Feb 2022 - Sep 2022
Connect, secure, control, and observe services.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:17 reviews, 8 commits, 12 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Xintong primarily focused on improving the codebase's security and stability by addressing error handling, certificate verification, and dependency updates. They refactored existing code to use the errors library API and fixed an issue related to verifying certificates. The user also made improvements to the testing framework, including the implementation of new tests and the use of utility functions. Additionally, they updated dependencies, suggesting a focus on keeping the project up-to-date with security patches.
circuit-breakerenforce-policiesistioapi-managementmicroservice
istio-ecosystem/hsm-sds-server
Jun 2022 - Feb 2023
This repo follows the SDS extension standard of Envoy and implements an external SDS server via more secure solution which is known as Hardware Security Module(HSM). By using this repo, User can maintain the credentials for workloads managed by Istio/Envoy in more secure scenario via external SDS server Besides supporting management for new credentials, it also allows user to upload existing credentials and manages them in higher security level This external SDS server can be used for both gateways and workload sidecars to provide their credential information.
Contributions:22 reviews, 47 commits, 44 PRs in 7 months
hardware-securityistiohardware-security-modulecredentialsworkload
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