Byungwoo Lee
Committer at Igalia
South Korea
Summary
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Top SchoolByungwoo Lee is a seasoned software engineer and long-time open-source committer with 14 years of experience building browser and web-platform features at companies including Samsung, Igalia, and Chromium. He brings deep C/C++ and web platform expertise—HTML/CSS/JavaScript/Java—alongside practical backend and cloud skills (Linux/Android, Spring, MySQL, Redis, AWS, Docker, Jenkins). His recent Chromium and Web Platform Tests contributions show a focus on robust build hygiene and advancing selector semantics (notably :has()) across widely used projects. Comfortable across front-end and systems code, he pairs low-level problem solving with production deployment know-how. Based in South Korea, he blends long-term product engineering at Samsung with active, meticulous open-source work that keeps major browser codepaths healthy.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
학사, Computer Software Engineering, 학사, Computer Software Engineering at 중앙대학교
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Github Skills (22)
javascript10
c-language10
testing10
css10
chromium10
build-system10
web-standards10
cprogramming-language10
test-automation10
dom9
header-files9
w3c9
html8
webkit7
firefox6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
web-platform-tests/wpt
Jun 2021 - Dec 2022
Test suites for Web platform specs — including WHATWG, W3C, and others
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:32 commits, 1 PR, 5 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Byungwoo primarily contributed to the development of the `:has()` pseudo-class support within the web platform tests repository. Their work involved implementing syntax support, selector matching logic, and writing tests to verify the correct behavior of the `:has()` pseudo-class with various relative arguments and in different contexts. They also focused on adding and improving existing tests related to the `:has()` pseudo-class, including invalidation tests for pseudo-classes.
microsoft-edgetest-runnerspecssafarifirefox
chromium/chromium
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
The official GitHub mirror of the Chromium source
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Byungwoo primarily focuses on fixing build issues related to the `safe_browsing_mode` build configuration within the Chromium source code. They have guarded header inclusions and related code using `BUILDFLAG(SAFE_BROWSING_AVAILABLE)`. The user's contributions involve modifying multiple files to ensure proper compilation and functionality when `safe_browsing_mode` is disabled. These changes are characterized as trivial build fixes.
chromiumgithub-mirrorchrome
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