XiaoLong Hong is a software engineer based in Hangzhou with 10 years of experience focused on back-end and high-performance server software. He is an active open-source contributor to Alibaba's Tengine (an enhanced Nginx distribution), where he has patched security vulnerabilities—including an HTTP range filter CVE—and merged upstream performance features. His contributions span memory-management improvements (slab slots, free pages statistics) and proxy-layer enhancements (upstream retry support for proxy, uwsgi, scgi, and memcached), demonstrating low-level systems expertise paired with production pragmatism. Describing himself as "a programmer 🐺," he brings a persistent, hands-on approach to strengthening and optimizing server stacks.
A distribution of Nginx with some advanced features
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Back-end Developer
Contributions:17 commits, 22 PRs, 9 pushes in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Xiaolong contributed to the Tengine project, a distribution of Nginx, by addressing security vulnerabilities and integrating upstream features. Their work involved patching code related to HTTP range filter modules to mitigate a CVE. Additionally, they merged and enabled specific features for improved performance such as slab slots and free pages statistics, impacting memory management. The user also added a macro and made code changes to allow for upstream tries in the proxy, uwsgi, scgi, and memcached modules.
Contributions:82 commits, 74 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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