Xuyang Wang
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXuyang Wang is a Staff Software Engineer based in Mountain View with nine years of experience building secure, production-grade infrastructure at Google across privacy, trust & security, YouTube, and data center software. He combines deep backend expertise with a security-first mindset, having contributed to high-profile open-source projects like Envoy and Google's ESPv2 proxy—adding JWT/authentication controls, request-timeout tests, and access-logging improvements to harden request handling. Comfortable across large-scale systems and test automation, he has a track record of fixing subtle proxy configuration bugs and expanding gRPC/JSON transcoding integration coverage. A Zhejiang University MS graduate, Xuyang pairs rigorous academic training with hands-on engineering that emphasizes reliability and measurable security controls.
9 years of coding experience
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at Zhejiang University
Github Skills (17)
apim10
envoyproxy10
apidoc10
api-design10
testing10
http10
authentication10
user-authentication10
jwt-authentication10
security10
go10
api10
protobuffer10
protobuf10
grpc10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleCloudPlatform/esp-v2
Mar 2019 - Oct 2022
A service proxy that provides API management capabilities using Google Service Infrastructure.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:11 releases, 483 reviews, 375 commits in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Xuyang primarily worked on enhancing the security and functionality of the ESPv2 API proxy, focusing on backend authentication and request handling. They fixed a bug related to proxy configuration setup and added a test case related to request timeouts, indicating work on improving the system's reliability. The user added checks to prevent unauthorized access, including a feature to handle the `disable_auth` functionality, which involved modifying code to support disabling and re-enabling JWT authentication, suggesting skills in authentication and security.
api-gatewayapigolangcppproxy
envoyproxy/envoy
Jul 2019 - Aug 2022
Cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:188 reviews, 12 commits, 34 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Xuyang primarily contributed to the Envoy proxy's authentication and gRPC-related functionalities. They implemented changes to the JWT authentication filter, including modifications to error handling and the forwarding of JWT payloads. Furthermore, the user added integration tests for the gRPC-JSON transcoder, expanding its capabilities. They also modified the access logger to include header sizes.
nanoservicesmore-catsgolangcontainersproxy
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