Chris Wilson
Executive Committee Member at W3C
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolChris Wilson is a veteran web platform strategist and standards leader whose career spans back to co-developing NCSA Mosaic for Windows and writing the first widespread implementation of Cascading Style Sheets in Internet Explorer. He now serves on the W3C Board and the Ecma International Executive Committee while leading web standards and WebXR product work at Google, shaping AR/VR, HTML, CSS, Web Audio and Web MIDI. Equally comfortable shipping demos and specs, he’s an active contributor to projects like the influential html5rocks resource and multiple Web Audio/Web MIDI examples that stem from a lifelong passion for synthesis and computer music. Known for strategic analysis, public speaking and narrative-driven developer engagement (Google I/O, Chrome Dev Summit), he focuses on building coherent, diverse teams and long-term platform strategy.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (35)
javascript10
ui-d10
canvas10
css10
polymer10
audio-processing10
user-interface10
userinterface10
ui-design10
graphical-user-interface10
html5-audio10
midi-instrument10
midi10
audio10
web-audio-api10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
cwilso/metronome
Dec 2012 - Oct 2022
Web Audio metronome example to show scheduling.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 4 PRs, 7 pushes in 9 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the front-end development of a web-based metronome. Their work included modifying the user interface (UI) elements, styling with CSS, and implementing the core JavaScript logic to visualize the metronome's beat. They focused on the visual aspects, including drawing elements on a canvas and integrating user controls for tempo and resolution. The user also addressed bugs, added comments, and updated the code base.
web-audioschedulingmetronomeaudio
cwilso/AudioRecorder
Nov 2012 - Oct 2018
Simple live audio file recorder, based on RecorderJS
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on improving the user interface and functionality of the audio recorder. Their contributions included fixing a buffer problem, adding the ability to export mono audio, and updating the project to align with current web audio specifications. They redesigned the user interface to be mobile-friendly and implemented download functionality.
audio-filejavascriptpcmaudioaudio-recorder
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