Yue Xu
Chief Executive Officer at EPIC Connector
California, United States
Summary
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RockstarYue Xu is a cybersecurity-focused CEO and founder with 11 years of experience building cloud-native security and AI defenses from product to research. Based in California, Yue co-founded TrustAI to prevent GenAI-targeted attacks and previously led API security as CTO at StarCross, launching an award-winning platform. His background at Alibaba Cloud includes designing container and cloud security SaaS and presenting research at Black Hat, BlueHat, HITB, and IJCAI, reflecting a blend of applied engineering and academic rigor. An active open-source security engineer, he contributes tooling for penetration testing and container escape detection (notably work on K8s/Docker testing and a remote vulnerability PoC framework). He also mentors AI founders through EPIC Connector and has a track record of turning deep technical research into practical, production-ready defenses.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
English, Chinese
Github Skills (22)
sql-injection10
kubernetes10
container10
docker10
penetration-testing10
python10
vulnerability10
web-application-security10
it-security10
dockers10
security10
exploit10
exp10
security-vulnerability10
kubernetes-pods10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Xyntax/POC-T
Mar 2016 - Sep 2020
渗透测试插件化并发框架 / Open-sourced remote vulnerability PoC/EXP framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:7 releases, 241 commits, 18 PRs in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Yue appears to be primarily focused on developing tools and exploits for penetration testing and vulnerability research. They contributed to a framework for exploiting remote vulnerabilities by adding and modifying modules for various security issues, including those related to SQL injection and other web application vulnerabilities. These contributions are directly aligned with the repository's purpose, and showcase a strong understanding of security vulnerabilities and exploit development techniques.
security-toolsbugbountysecurityvulnerability-scannervulnerability
cdk-team/CDK
Dec 2020 - May 2021
📦 Make security testing of K8s, Docker, and Containerd easier.
Role in this project:Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:6 releases, 53 commits, 9 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Yue's contributions primarily focused on enhancing security testing capabilities within the Kubernetes and containerized environment, as indicated by the repository's description and topics. They added features for evaluating cloud metadata APIs, network namespace configurations, and container escape exploits like CVE-2019-5736 and CVE-2020-15257. The user also enhanced existing tools for file matching, port scanning, and Kubernetes API interaction, demonstrating a focus on penetration testing and vulnerability assessment.
hacktoolsk8s-penetration-toolkitseccomppenetrationdocker
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