Brian Mcnamara
Principal Software Engineer at Salesforce
Redwood City, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Mcnamara is a Principal Software Engineer based in Redwood City with 11 years of experience building robust front-end systems at scale. Currently at Salesforce, he focuses on delivering secure, maintainable UI components and has hands-on expertise improving frameworks like Aura to harden SVG parsing, prevent script injection, and refine design layout support. A Virginia Tech computer engineering graduate, he combines deep front-end craftsmanship with an engineer’s attention to security and cross-browser compatibility. His open-source contributions reveal a pragmatic approach to legacy-browser quirks and component-driven design, reflecting a bias toward practical fixes that improve developer ergonomics and product safety.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech
Github Skills (6)
css10
javascript10
aura-framework10
front-end-development10
svg9
xml9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
forcedotcom/aura
Dec 2014 - Oct 2018
This project is archived, please see the readme for additional resources.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily focused on enhancing the user interface within the Aura framework. Contributions include modifying CSS to hide elements in Internet Explorer and enforcing the use of Aura components. The user also implemented changes to prevent script injection by parsing and caching SVGs. Furthermore, the user added support for design layouts and option tags within design files.
additionalsalesforce-lightninglwcarchivedshadow-dom
brian-mcnamara/Signal-Android
May 2018 - Mar 2023
A private messenger for Android.
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
messengerkotlinjavaandroid
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