Brian Kardell
Developer Advocate
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Kardell is a Developer Advocate with 14+ years shaping front-end platforms and web standards, currently at Igalia in Pittsburgh. A web veteran since 1996, he blends deep Java and middleware experience with a long-standing focus on browser capabilities, developer ergonomics, and performance. He co-authored the Extensible Web Manifesto, chairs the Extensible Web Community Group, and represents the JS Foundation in the CSS Working Group, driving standards-level improvements and healthier governance. At Apollo Group he led adoption of modern toolchains, JavaScript modules, and Custom Elements across a large global organization, and his earlier open-source work (including DUML/HitchJS) influenced component models before web components became mainstream. An active contributor to web-platform-tests—especially MathML and CSS validation—he combines practical QA/test automation with standards advocacy, and he’s known for proposing pragmatic, sometimes contrarian ideas to accelerate the web’s evolution.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
University of VermontEdinboro University of Pennsylvania
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Github Skills (8)
html10
javascript10
mathml10
web-standards10
test-automation10
testing10
dom9
css9
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
web-platform-tests/wpt
Apr 2019 - Mar 2021
Test suites for Web platform specs — including WHATWG, W3C, and others
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 8 commits, 21 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the test suite of the web-platform-tests repository. Their work involved creating and modifying tests for various web platform features, specifically focusing on MathML and CSS styling, global event handlers and `tabindex` handling. The contributions included importing tests from other sources, adding new test cases for functionalities, and correcting existing tests by fixing typos and updating test assertions. The focus of their work appears to be related to ensuring the web platform standards for MathML elements adhere to the specifications.
microsoft-edgetest-runnerspecssafarifirefox
bkardell/common-panel
Nov 2014 - Sep 2016
Contributions:105 commits, 2 PRs, 69 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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