Xueqin Cui
Software Engineer at Google
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolXueqin Cui is a software engineer based in Sydney with three years of professional experience focused on open source security at Google. She has a strong academic foundation in computer science and statistics from ANU and HKU, and practical backend expertise demonstrated by contributions to the prominent google/osv-scanner project—implementing dependency support, Maven manifest handling, and SARIF test updates to improve vulnerability reporting. Her background spans finance and academia, bringing disciplined analytical thinking from roles at HSBC and as an ANU tutor into secure software engineering. Comfortable with Go and dependency ecosystem tooling, she blends rigorous release preparation with automation and cross-ecosystem compatibility work that often goes unnoticed behind major open-source security tooling.
3 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National UniversityExchange, Exchange at The University of British ColumbiaThe University of Hong Kong (HKU)Mathematics, Mathematics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Github Skills (10)
maven10
dependency-management10
go10
xml9
testing8
security-txt7
security-scan7
security7
scanning6
vulnerability-scanners6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
google/osv-scanner
Aug 2023 - Apr 2025
Vulnerability scanner written in Go which uses the data provided by https://osv.dev
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:460 reviews, 261 PRs, 166 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Xueqin primarily contributed to enhancing the OSV scanner's functionality, with a focus on improving support for various dependency management tools. They implemented features to handle aliased packages in npm lock files and added dependency group reporting for several package ecosystems, including Composer, Maven, and Poetry. Additionally, the user prepared the release version and updated test cases for SARIF output to reflect changes. They also built the structure for automated updates, adding a Maven manifest reader and writer.
security-auditscannergolangsecurity-toolsopenvas
google/deps.dev
May 2023 - Apr 2025
Resources for the deps.dev API
Contributions:49 reviews, 79 PRs, 88 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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