Xufei Tan
Information Security Engineer
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolXufei Tan is an Information Security Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience designing and scaling defensive systems for large platforms. Currently at Google, he focuses on breaking unit tests at global scale to fortify production systems, and previously at Yelp improved login resilience and shifted security left with open-source developer tooling. He combines a strong software engineering foundation from UC Berkeley with hands-on application security practice, mentoring and hiring experience, and a pragmatic approach to automating defenses. Off the clock he cultivates small productivity hacks (like binding Caps Lock to Escape), reflecting a detail-oriented mindset that shows up in both tooling and security design.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (45)
yelp10
decal10
tld10
secrets-detection10
system-administration10
delegation10
secrets9
pytest9
security9
waveform9
xcf9
music9
trust9
chaos8
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
tanx16/tanx16.github.io
Dec 2019 - Mar 2023
Contributions:6 PRs, 12 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 3 months
Yelp/fuzz-lightyear
Dec 2019 - Oct 2020
A pytest-inspired, DAST framework, capable of identifying vulnerabilities in a distributed, micro-service ecosystem through chaos engineering testing and stateful, Swagger fuzzing.
Contributions:8 reviews, 18 commits, 6 PRs in 9 months
chaosmicro-serviceswaggerpythonvulnerabilities
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