Arron Eicholz
Enumclaw, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolArron Eicholz is a web technology specialist with nearly three decades of experience building browser engines, developer tooling, and large-scale reporting systems, primarily at Microsoft and within W3C standards groups. He blends hands-on front-end expertise (React, TypeScript, JS, HTML/CSS) with deep backend and .NET experience to design robust systems for measuring and reporting software quality and deployment health. At Microsoft he led teams that improved Edge engineering systems, authored a 6,000-page interoperability spec, and built core reporting infrastructure used for product decisions. A long-time W3C contributor, he created the first core CSS test suite of over 9,500 cases and authored early specs for positioned layout, work that materially advanced web standards compliance. He also contributes to notable open-source tools such as the bikeshed spec preprocessor, improving markdown processing and test coverage. Based in Enumclaw, Washington, Arron is known for marrying rigorous standards-driven testing with pragmatic automation to reduce regressions and accelerate shipping.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Green River Community College
Github Skills (9)
html10
markdown10
markdown-it10
python10
regular-expression9
css9
git-repository8
testing8
github-repos8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
speced/bikeshed
Dec 2015 - Jan 2017
:bike: A preprocessor for anyone writing specifications that converts source files into actual specs.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 25 PRs, 21 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Arron made significant contributions to the `bikeshed` project, a specification preprocessor. Their work primarily involved enhancing the markdown processing capabilities, introducing features like horizontal rules and addressing indentation issues. They also added test cases to improve the reliability of the preprocessor. Furthermore, the user refactored the code by removing unnecessary parameters and fixing linking for HTML includes, improving the overall functionality.
preprocessor
arronei/bikeshed
Mar 2016 - Apr 2026
Contributions:37 pushes, 19 branches in 10 years 2 months
specsbikepreprocessorspecificationssource-files
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