Xiang Xu is a software engineer with eight years of experience building low-level Windows system tooling and large-scale AI foundation models. He spent nearly a decade at McAfee developing kernel-level hooks, sandbox-evasion mitigation, and static analysis improvements for complex PE and script-based threats before joining Microsoft in 2021. More recently he contributes to Alibaba Tongyi Lab’s Qwen team, working on image foundation models such as Qwen-Image and Qwen-Image-Edit, blending systems expertise with machine-learning model engineering. Based in California, he bridges security-focused systems programming and cutting-edge ML model development, enabling practical, production-ready solutions. Colleagues describe him as the kind of engineer who moves fluently between kernel internals and model pipelines, with a knack for shipping robust tooling that anticipates adversarial or operational edge cases.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at East China University of Technology
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