Charles Harrison
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolCharles Harrison is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience architecting high-performance browser features and privacy-forward APIs on the Chrome team at Google. He has led work across loading performance, speculative execution, and ad-quality improvements, and more recently focused on adding new Privacy Sandbox APIs. His open-source contributions include backend implementations for the WICG Attribution Reporting API and enhancements to the widely used WebPageTest project, reflecting a blend of browser internals and real-world measurement tooling. Based in Austin, he pairs low-level optimization expertise (URL/string CPU work) with pragmatic API design and a habit of shipping readable, data-rich tooling.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science + Applied Math, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science + Applied Math at Brown University
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Github Skills (11)
http10
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bash10
api10
python10
apidoc10
data-analysis10
csv-parser9
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
WICG/attribution-reporting-api
May 2019 - Jan 2023
Attribution Reporting API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:434 reviews, 301 commits, 225 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Charles primarily focused on developing the backend logic and infrastructure for the Attribution Reporting API. Their contributions include implementing features related to processing requests from the bikeshed API, including error handling for HTTP status codes. They also created and modified files such as index.bs and compile.sh. Finally, the user developed the initial scaffolding for the spec, including high-level sections and algorithms.
apireporting-apiattributionreporting
catchpoint/WebPageTest
Mar 2016 - Aug 2016
Official repository for WebPageTest
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 5 months
Contributions summary:Charles's contributions focus on enhancing the `ab_analysis.py` script within the WebPageTest repository. They've added custom metrics, modified the output format to include more data in a CSV file, and integrated URLs into the CSV output. They also addressed a typo in the code. These changes suggest an effort to improve data analysis and reporting capabilities.
javascriptwebpagetest
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