Brandon Maslen
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Maslen is a Principal Software Engineer based in Redmond with nine years of experience building and maintaining robust systems at Microsoft, progressing from SDET intern to principal engineer. He combines deep low-level skills in C/C++ and networking with broad server administration experience across Windows, Linux, and *BSD, and is fluent in scripting and web languages like Python, PHP, and JavaScript. At Microsoft he’s driven platform-quality work and contributed to web platform tests upstream—adding Beacon and Storage Access API test coverage that improves cross-origin and redirect semantics. He brings a pragmatic blend of systems-level thinking and web API validation, informed by earlier entrepreneurial work running a tech services company. Known for quietly turning complex protocol and compatibility requirements into reliable test suites and production code, he’s comfortable operating across firmware-to-cloud stacks.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSEng, Software Engineering., BSEng, Software Engineering. at University of VictoriaDiploma, Mechanical Engineering Technologist, Diploma, Mechanical Engineering Technologist at Camosun College
Github Skills (9)
javascript10
web-development10
web-standards10
test-automation10
testing10
apidoc9
browser9
api9
html8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
web-platform-tests/wpt
Feb 2017 - Nov 2021
Test suites for Web platform specs — including WHATWG, W3C, and others
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 13 commits, 7 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily contributed to the test suites for the Web platform specifications, specifically related to the Beacon API and Storage Access API. They added and updated test cases, focusing on cross-origin requests, Content-Type handling, and scenarios involving redirects. The user also made changes to the IDL definitions for the Storage Access API and Parakeet API, and added associated tests. This work demonstrates a focus on web platform testing and API validation.
w3ctestingtest-automationbrowserwhatwg
Brandr0id/disconnect-tracking-protection
Sep 2019 - Oct 2019
Canonical repository for the Disconnect services file
Contributions:2 pushes, 6 branches in 1 month
disconnectcanonical
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