Career Timeline
Note: Certain specific dates and locations are not disclosed due to confidentiality agreements.
Personal Milestone
July 2002 - Born
Early Tech & Entrepreneurship (2015–2019)
2015
- Jul 6 - Founded a Minecraft server network
- Jul 26 - Server officially launched
- Nov 24 - Server architecture upgraded
- Dec - Featured by multiple major Minecraft platforms in China
2016
- Jan - Reached 10,000 users; QQ group ranked #1 nationally
- Feb - Server subjected to sustained DDoS attacks (20,000–40,000 hits/day), prompting self-study in cybersecurity
- Apr - Launched Xuemian online trading platform for virtual goods
- Apr 11 - Xuemian Technology official website launched
- Jun - Platform upgraded
- Jul - Partnered with a data center to develop a server leasing platform (ToC)
2017
- Mar - Invited to join multiple cybersecurity organizations
- Mar - Built corporate website for a chemical industry client
2018
- Participated in a city-level red team/blue team cybersecurity exercise as an offensive team member
2019
- Aug - Passed Huawei Certified ICT Professional (HCIP) — Data Communication

Professional Certifications & Industry Recognition (2020–2022)
2020
- Apr 9 - Passed Huawei HCIE Security written exam
- Jun 22 - Passed Huawei HCIE Security lab exam
- Aug 7 - Passed Huawei HCIE Security interview
- Sep 4 - Became a core member of Huawei HDZ Hangzhou
- Sep 20 - Personal blog launched
- Oct - Established Huawei HERO Academy chapter in Hangzhou Xiasha
- Oct 19 - Official WeChat public account resumed operations
- Dec - Participated in city-level cybersecurity exercise as a defensive team member
- Dec 12 - Obtained NSFOCUS Senior Security Professional (NSSP) certification
- Dec 22 - Passed Alibaba Cloud Associate certification with a score of 92/100


2021
- Feb 23 - Attended MWC21 (Mobile World Congress)
- Mar - Participated in city-level cybersecurity exercise at a local bank as defensive team member
- Apr 24–26 - Invited to Huawei Developer Conference, Shenzhen
- May 20 - Signed cooperation agreement with Visual China Group
- Jun 24 - Attended Ant Group Blockchain Summit
- Jun - Ranked #1 nationally among Huawei Cloud Academy chapter leaders
- Jun - Organized and delivered Huawei expert lectures at three universities
- Sep 29 - Passed Alibaba Cloud Certified Professional (ACP) — Solutions Architect
- Nov 19 - Passed Alibaba Cloud Advanced Computing certification
- Dec 19 - Co-hosted a 350-person lecture with Huawei Research Institute
2022
- Jan 7 - Received 2021 Huawei HDZ Outstanding Leadership Award
- Provided technical support to a municipal propaganda department for cybersecurity audits

Cybersecurity Expertise & Recognition (2023–2024)
2023
- Provided technical support to a municipal health commission for cybersecurity audits
- Jul - Participated in a national-level red team/blue team exercise in Beijing as a defensive team member for a large manufacturing company
- Jul - Received 2023 Huawei Outstanding Academy Leadership Award
- Oct - Contributed to key cybersecurity operations for the Hangzhou Asian Games

2024
- Jan - Obtained China Computer Software Copyright Registration for "Enterprise Intranet Security Audit System"
- May - Participated in cybersecurity red/blue team exercise for one of China's four major state-owned banks; responsible for attack interception and analysis
- Jul - Received 2024 Huawei Pioneer Youth Award
- Aug - Awarded QUT International Merit Scholarship





DevSecOps & Platform Engineering (2024–Present)
Queensland University of Technology (QUT) – Australia (2024–Present) | Master's Student
2024 - Enrolled in Master of Information Technology at QUT
- Specialisation: Information Security & Networks
- Research focus: AI applications in cybersecurity



Luxholdings Pty – Australia (2024–Present) | Platform Engineer
2024 - Built and maintained a property & leasing management SaaS platform (r.ict.run)
- Developed iOS & Android apps for remote home automation: temperature/humidity control, security cameras, and device integration
- Integrated smart home APIs (Home Assistant, Hikvision, Dahua, Daikin, Tuya IoT) for seamless device control
- Deployed Ollama + Llama 3 for real-time AI chat with SSE streaming output
- Developed Django backend integrated with client-facing applications
- Tech Stack: Ollama, Llama, DeepSeek, SSE, Django, Vue 3, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Docker, Bootstrap, React Native (Expo), Home Assistant API, Hikvision, Dahua, Tuya IoT
KUNO – Global (2025–Present) | Full-Stack Developer
2025 - Built an internationalisation-first CMS platform with AI-powered content management
- Multi-language blog platform supporting 70+ languages with advanced i18n architecture
- Advanced SEO features with automated optimisation and keyword tracking
- Real-time analytics with geographic distribution and behaviour tracking
- Embedding quality dashboard with PCA/t-SNE dimensionality reduction, similarity network graphs, and real-time RAG visualisation using D3.js
- Rich media management supporting images, videos, and custom upload handling
- Docker containerised deployment with one-click installation scripts
- GitHub: https://github.com/xuemian168/kuno | Live Demo: https://qut.edu.kg
Tendor.ai – Australia (2025–Present) | Platform Engineer
2025 - Building core backend infrastructure for an AI-powered government tender and grant automation platform serving Australian SMEs
- Developed AI-driven proposal generation pipeline, leveraging LLMs to produce compliant, high-quality tender submissions aligned with government procurement requirements
- Built a tender matching engine integrating with 80,000+ government opportunity feeds across federal, state, and local sources, with automated relevance scoring
- Implemented RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) architecture to ground AI outputs in tender documents, legislation, and client business context, reducing hallucination and improving compliance
- Designed and maintained scalable backend APIs handling concurrent tender searches, document processing, and proposal drafting workflows
- Built document parsing and extraction pipelines to process PDFs, government specification files, and compliance checklists
- Implemented user authentication, subscription management, and role-based access control
- Deployed and maintained containerised microservices on cloud infrastructure with CI/CD pipelines
- Tech Stack: Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Redis, LLM APIs, RAG, Docker, Next.js
Security Research & CVE Disclosure – Global (2025–2026) | Independent Security Researcher
2025–2026 - Independent security research with multiple CVEs published in NIST NVD and ENISA EUVD
- CVE-2025-62614 / EUVD-2025-35633: Booklore — Reporter (HIGH)
- CVE-2025-12919 / EUVD-2025-38720: Evershop — Reporter (HIGH)
- CVE-2025-13121: Liketea — Reporter (HIGH)
- CVE-2025-65519: ezbookkeeping — Reporter (HIGH)
- CVE-2026-25591: new-api — Reporter (HIGH)
- GHSA-p536-vvpp-9mc8 / GHSA-p25h-9q54-ffvw: Openclaw — Reporter (MEDIUM/HIGH)
- CVE-2026-33144: GPAC — Reporter (MEDIUM)
- CVE-2025-61768 / CVE-2025-61681: Publisher & Patch Author (MEDIUM)
- Contributed security detection tools and patches to the open-source community
Zli.li – Global (2025–Present) | Founder & Platform Engineer
2025 - Developed open-source and commercial domain scanner
- Containerised deployment on virtualisation platform using Docker Compose
- GitHub trending project, recommended by industry press
- Open-source version: https://github.com/xuemian168/domain-scanner (500+ Stars)
- Commercial version: https://zli.li (450+ users)
- Tech Stack: Golang, Gin, React, Next.js, OAuth, Docker, MongoDB
TikHub.io – USA (2025–Present) | Platform Engineer (Remote)
2025 - Built high-performance backend systems for a social media data platform serving millions of daily requests
- Refactored caching service from Python to Go, achieving 40x performance improvement; handles 3M+ daily requests at 10,000+ QPS with ~100MB memory footprint
- Architected multi-platform social media dataset system with ~100 million records, supporting 9 platforms and 39 data parsers
- Built tiered caching architecture: Redis (hot data, 1-hour TTL) + PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB (persistent storage with hourly partitioning for billions of records)
- Implemented Kafka producer/consumer pattern with RabbitMQ worker pools for high-concurrency async writes
- Integrated Zstandard compression achieving 70–80% storage reduction with automatic encoding/decoding
- Designed 18 database tables with TimescaleDB time-series optimisation and materialised views for analytics
- Developed OAuth2/JWT authentication middleware and high-performance log system (10k+ QPS)
- Deployed containerised microservices on Kubernetes with sub-second startup time
- Tech Stack: Go, Gin, GORM, PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB, RabbitMQ, Redis, Kafka, ClickHouse, Docker, Kubernetes