Yuping Li
Security Engineer at Pinterest
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYuping Li is a seasoned Security Engineer in San Francisco with 13 years of experience securing internet-scale systems and cloud infrastructure. At Pinterest she architected a universal authorization framework, certificate-based SSH access, and enterprise-grade vulnerability and IAM permission management for AWS and container workloads. Her background blends hands-on malware analysis and reverse engineering with production systems work—she has researched endpoint/network detection and binary patch analysis in prior research roles. An active contributor to open-source secret management tooling, she improved client/server robustness and key-handling in Pinterest’s Knox service. Comfortable in Linux and Python, she bridges deep technical research with pragmatic engineering to deliver auditable, scalable security controls.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Information Security, Bachelor of Science (BS), Information Security at Southwest Jiaotong UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science and Engineering at University of South FloridaKansas State University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (6)
secret-management10
go10
api-design10
user-authentication9
authentication9
http9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
pinterest/knox
Nov 2021 - Aug 2022
Knox is a secret management service
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 16 commits, 9 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Yuping primarily focused on improving the Knox secret management service's client and server-side components. They addressed a resource-leaking issue by properly closing response bodies in HTTP requests and updated authentication responses. Several commits involved refactoring and fixing issues related to key retrieval, including handling invalid keys. Additionally, they made minor adjustments to documentation and metrics gathering within the client library.
knoxsecret-managementsecrets-managerservice-managementsecrets
xia0pin9/forensic
Oct 2014 - Nov 2015
Contributions:24 commits in 1 year
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