Delan Azabani
Web Platform Engineer
Perth, Western Australia
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Top SchoolDelan Azabani is a Web Platform Engineer with 14 years of experience building reliable, performance-conscious systems across frontend, backend, build automation, and devops. Based in Perth and currently at Igalia, she contributes to high-impact open-source projects including Servo and Web Platform Tests, where her work improved testing, build stability, and CSS spec compliance. Her background spans companies from Automattic to Atlassian and Canva, blending practical product-facing UI work with deep systems programming in Rust, x86, and build tooling. Passionate about internationalisation, Unicode, digital preservation and typography, she brings careful attention to edge cases and long-term correctness. She’s also an experienced technical writer who refines W3C drafts and test suites to make standards clearer and interoperable. Outside work she channels analytical curiosity into teaching, cooking, cubing and folk punk road trips—a blend that surfaces in meticulous, user-focused engineering.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Curtin University
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Github Skills (69)
servo10
utf10
testing10
build-automation10
webtest10
javascript10
jquery10
wordpress10
validation10
html10
rust10
test-automation10
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Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
web-platform-tests/wpt
Mar 2020 - Dec 2022
Test suites for Web platform specs — including WHATWG, W3C, and others
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 42 commits, 17 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Delan's contributions primarily involve updating and improving web platform tests (WPT) related to CSS pseudo-elements. They focused on implementing new tests and updating existing ones to ensure accurate behavior of CSS features like ::selection, ::search-text, text-decoration, and highlight painting order. Their work involved modifying test cases, reference files, and support files to ensure that the tests accurately reflect the specifications and provide reliable results across different browsers. They demonstrated a strong understanding of CSS pseudo-elements and their interactions.
microsoft-edgetest-runnerspecssafarifirefox
servo/servo
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Servo, the embeddable, independent, memory-safe, modular, parallel web rendering engine
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Build Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Build Automation EngineerContributions:376 reviews, 20 commits, 253 PRs in 16 days
Contributions summary:Delan contributed to the testing framework of the Servo project by adding features to filter intermittent test results and output them in JSON format, including progress indicators. Furthermore, the user made changes to enhance the build process for the Servo project by integrating updates and resolving merge conflicts, ensuring build stability. The changes to the code included modifications to testing commands and build-related scripts.
browserrustjavascriptbrowser-engineservo
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