Bryan Mcquade
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Databricks
Greater Boston United States
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Top SchoolBryan Mcquade is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with nearly two decades of experience building large-scale measurement and performance platforms across Chrome, Google Search, and cloud services, and now contributing to Databricks. He blends deep hands-on technical work—such as upgrading core libraries and improving WebPageTest outputs—with cross-organizational leadership, having founded Google’s PageSpeed effort and led the Service Extensions product team. Bryan is skilled at defining core metrics and large data pipelines to turn real-world user experience signals into product decisions and ranking incentives. Comfortable both mentoring teams and diving into unfamiliar technical domains, he has a track record of shipping widely used tools (e.g., PageSpeed Insights and the Chrome User Experience Report) and improving the infrastructure that measures web performance. Based in Greater Boston, he pairs product sensibility with implementation depth, often surfacing practical compatibility and dependency fixes that enable broader feature work.
17 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Middlebury College
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Github Skills (11)
c1710
libpng10
libjpeg10
c1110
zlib10
mono6
subdomain6
apache6
dns6
parsing6
spdy6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
catchpoint/WebPageTest
Sep 2011 - Mar 2016
Official repository for WebPageTest
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 4 PRs, 1 push in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Bryan primarily focused on updating and integrating external libraries within the WebPageTest project. This involved upgrading zlib, libpng, and libjpeg to their latest versions, addressing dependencies and ensuring compatibility. The user also added the Page Speed 1.12.1 SDK, preparing for future performance enhancements and integration of Page Speed features within the project. Furthermore, the user improved intermediate result formats, likely to support multiple output formats in the analysis tools.
javascriptwebpagetest
pagespeed/page-speed
May 2009 - May 2014
PageSpeed Insights SDK
Contributions:1521 commits in 5 years 1 month
analyticspagespeed-insightssdkpagespeedinsights
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