Alec Garcia
Software Engineer at Google
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlec Garcia is a software engineer based in Seattle with 11 years of experience spanning mobile and front-end web development, currently working at Google. He began his career shipping Android products at startups (including a role at Locket that led to an acquisition) and evolved into a sole front-end engineer building React web apps, dashboards, and embeddable widgets for Youplus. Alec contributes to open-source media playback (dash.js), where his fixes improved playback robustness and UI styling—reflecting a practical focus on edge-case handling and user experience. Comfortable across the stack, he has hands-on expertise with WebRTC, React, and Android, and a track record of shipping polished consumer-facing features under tight deadlines. He balances startup grit with large-company scale and brings a habit of digging into production issues that has surfaced security and robustness improvements early in projects.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Android Developer Nanodegree, Android Developer Nanodegree at UdacityComputer Science, Computer Science at California State University-Channel Islands
English
Github Skills (6)
javascript10
dashjs10
streaming9
360-video9
stream9
mediasource8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Dash-Industry-Forum/dash.js
Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
A reference client implementation for the playback of MPEG DASH via Javascript and compliant browsers.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 14 days
Contributions summary:Alec primarily focused on fixing styling issues and addressing an undefined variable within the `PlaybackController.js` file. Their contributions involved modifying code related to stream start time calculations and handling edge cases when parsing media fragments. These changes suggest a focus on improving the robustness and visual presentation of the playback functionality within the dash.js project, demonstrating a front-end focus.
msswebrtcplaybackvideomse
stackriot/ChromeIGStory
Jul 2017 - Jan 2019
Chrome extension that lets you view your friend's Instagram Stories in the browser.
Contributions:98 commits in 1 year 5 months
browserinstagram-storieschromefriendinstagram
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