Chris Wilson
Executive Committee Member at W3C
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolChris Wilson is a veteran web platform strategist and standards leader with three decades of hands-on experience dating back to co-developing NCSA Mosaic for Windows and implementing the first widespread CSS engine in Internet Explorer. Now an executive-level contributor at W3C and Ecma and a long-standing Google product and standards lead, he blends deep technical fluency in Web Audio, MIDI and immersive AR with senior product strategy, narrative design and team-building skills. He has a rare track record of shaping HTML, DOM and CSS evolution, co-chairing working groups, and translating complex APIs into teachable demos and event narratives at Google I/O and Chrome Dev Summit. A musician and lifelong synthesis enthusiast, he continues to publish practical Web Audio projects—like metronomes, MIDI synths and pitch-detection demos—that inform his standards work. Equally comfortable in standards negotiations and mentoring cross-disciplinary teams, he focuses on creating coherent, diverse organizations capable of shipping long-lived platform features.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science (Engineering), BS Computer Science (Engineering) at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Github Skills (32)
javascript10
canvas10
css10
polymer10
audio-processing10
user-interface10
ui-design10
graphical-user-interface10
html5-audio10
midi-instrument10
midi10
audio10
uid10
web-audio-api10
front-end-development10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
cwilso/metronome
Dec 2012 - Oct 2022
Web Audio metronome example to show scheduling.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 4 PRs, 7 pushes in 9 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the front-end development of a web-based metronome. Their work included modifying the user interface (UI) elements, styling with CSS, and implementing the core JavaScript logic to visualize the metronome's beat. They focused on the visual aspects, including drawing elements on a canvas and integrating user controls for tempo and resolution. The user also addressed bugs, added comments, and updated the code base.
web-audioschedulingmetronomeaudio
cwilso/AudioRecorder
Nov 2012 - Oct 2018
Simple live audio file recorder, based on RecorderJS
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on improving the user interface and functionality of the audio recorder. Their contributions included fixing a buffer problem, adding the ability to export mono audio, and updating the project to align with current web audio specifications. They redesigned the user interface to be mobile-friendly and implemented download functionality.
audio-filejavascriptpcmaudioaudio-recorder
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