Andreu Botella
Browser Engineer at Igalia
Elx / Elche, Valencian Community, Spain
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Top SchoolAndreu Botella is a browser and web-standards engineer with 11 years of experience, currently working at Igalia on Chromium’s Blink layout and text-rendering subsystems. They bridge browser internals and server-side JavaScript needs through active WinterCG work and contributions that span WHATWG/W3C specs, Web Platform Tests, and implementations across Chromium, Gecko, WebKit and Deno. Andreu has shipped practical fixes and tests for tricky layout features like CSS line-clamp and text-box-trim, and has deep experience in form encoding, TextDecoder/encoding, structured cloning, and ShadowRealm/realms internals. Formerly a full‑stack developer, they combine runtime-level systems expertise (rusty_v8, Deno) with hands-on web app and API experience in Node.js, React and PHP. A Fedora/GNOME Linux user and self-described math/physics/linguistics geek, they bring both rigorous technical judgement and cross-engine interoperability focus to browser engineering.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Computer Engineering, Engineer's degree, Computer Engineering at Universitat d'Alacant
Spanish, English, Catalan
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Github Skills (37)
test-automation10
javascript10
c-language10
strings10
form-data10
testing10
text-manipulation10
css10
chromium10
webkit10
web-standards10
text-encoding10
html10
v8-javascript-engine10
rust10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
denoland/deno
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:132 reviews, 114 commits, 113 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Andreu contributed to the core functionality of the Deno runtime, specifically in the areas of text encoding and fetch functionality. Their work included improvements to the `TextDecoder` class, enhancing its stream support and optimizing encoding performance. Furthermore, the user implemented features related to multipart/form-data serialization within the `fetch` module, ensuring correct newline normalization and escape handling for requests. The contributions showcase their expertise in JavaScript runtime internals and web platform APIs.
rustjavascriptruntimedenotypescript
denoland/rusty_v8
Jun 2021 - Nov 2022
Rust bindings for the V8 JavaScript engine
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 reviews, 14 commits, 19 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Andreu primarily contributed to the `rusty_v8` project by implementing and improving Rust bindings for the V8 JavaScript engine. Their work involved adding missing methods for string manipulation, enhancing the interaction with V8's compiled WebAssembly module representation, and integrating new features like `WasmStreaming` functionality for source URL setting. Additionally, the user refactored code and addressed potential memory safety issues related to array buffers and backing stores.
javascript-enginev8-javascript-enginerustjavascriptwebassembly
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