Andrés Olivares
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Munich, Bavaria, United States
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Top SchoolAndrés Olivares is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience building performant, user-focused tooling at Google, currently working on Chrome DevTools from Munich. He blends front-end craftsmanship—TypeScript-driven UI fixes and layout improvements—with low-level performance engineering, having added tracing, CPU profiling, and test coverage to the Chromium codebase. A dual undergraduate in Systems & Computing and Industrial Engineering at Universidad de Los Andes, he brings both rigorous engineering and systems-thinking to debugging and performance optimization. Andrés has progressed from intern to senior engineer at Google, demonstrating sustained impact on one of the world’s most widely used open-source projects. He’s comfortable straddling browser internals and developer-facing UI, and is known for surfacing hard-to-measure performance signals into actionable tooling.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Universidad de los Andes
English, Spanish
Github Skills (15)
uid10
v8-javascript-engine10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
performance-optimization10
typescript-types10
devtools9
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
web-performance9
css9
html7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ChromeDevTools/devtools-frontend
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
The Chrome DevTools UI
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:286 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Andrés made several contributions related to the Chrome DevTools UI, including fixing a bug in the Computed frames, type-checking various CSS overview components with TypeScript, and addressing style issues in the elements panel. They were also involved in updating the front-end codebase by migrating projects to a new structure. Their work focused on refining the interface, improving code quality by utilizing TypeScript, and fixing UI layout problems.
instrumentationreactjavascriptchromecdp
chromium/chromium
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
The official GitHub mirror of the Chromium source
Role in this project:Performance Engineer
Performance EngineerContributions:2 commits in 8 days
Contributions summary:Andrés's contributions center on enhancing the performance analysis capabilities within the Chromium project. They focused on instrumenting the codebase to collect detailed trace data for performance.measure calls, console.timeStamp calls, and function calls. This involved adding new trace events, integrating CPU profiling, and implementing a helper to obtain sample trace IDs for better correlation between events and CPU samples. They also added tests to validate the new tracing features.
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