Aaron Tagliaboschi
Software Engineer at Dropbox
Bowling Green, Kentucky, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Tagliaboschi is a software engineer with a decade of experience building developer infrastructure and browser networking features, currently focused on improving developer environments at Dropbox. Previously a Chromium committer at Google, he led the User-Agent Client Hints and Client Hints Reliability efforts from proposal through shipping and implemented an HTTP/2 embedded test server, reflecting deep expertise in web standards and protocol-level testing. He contributes to the widely used web-platform-tests project, authoring and refining tests for client hints behavior across complex scenarios like service workers and cross-origin requests. Comfortable across systems administration, tooling, and front-end testing, Aaron blends pragmatic engineering with standards advocacy and partner outreach. Based in Bowling Green, KY, he prefers remote-only roles and publishes a print-friendly online resume at aarontag.com/resume.html.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Western Kentucky University
Github Skills (9)
html10
javascript10
web-development10
web-standards10
test-automation10
testing10
dom9
blink9
browser9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
web-platform-tests/wpt
Sep 2019 - Mar 2022
Test suites for Web platform specs — including WHATWG, W3C, and others
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:26 commits, 1 comment in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Aaron's contributions primarily focused on web platform testing, specifically related to client hints. Their work involved modifying existing tests and creating new ones to validate the correct behavior of client hint headers, ensuring that they are correctly sent, received, and handled in various scenarios, including service workers and cross-origin requests. They also addressed issues such as duplicate headers and incorrect formatting. Furthermore, the user refactored and renamed existing tests, demonstrating a good understanding of the testing framework and web standards.
microsoft-edgetest-runnerspecssafarifirefox
amtunlimited/aarontag.dev
Jan 2020 - Oct 2024
Website and blog
Contributions:5 PRs, 55 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 9 months
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