Dominique Hazael-massieux
VP Of European Operations
Toulon, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
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Top SchoolDominique Hazael-massieux is a veteran web technologist and engineering leader with 36 years’ experience shaping standards and operations at W3C and beyond. As VP of European Operations and VP of Global Impact, she blends strategic leadership with deep technical authorship—driving WebRTC, mobile, and immersive Web (WebXR/WebVR) standardization while serving on W3C’s board and management team. A hands-on engineer and developer in JavaScript, Python and more, she has materially improved specs and tooling (notably contributions to Web Audio, Respec/Bikeshed, MDN content and web-platform-tests) to make standards clearer and more testable. She pairs community-building and outreach (Communities Lead and Telecom industry champion) with practical QA and publication systems work dating back to early W3C publication automation. Based in Toulon and active in European research and consortia leadership (ERCIM Managing Director), she brings a rare mix of policy, governance, and low-level spec craftsmanship that helps translate high-level vision into interoperable web reality.
36 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer Degree Engineering, Engineer Degree Engineering at CentraleSupélecClasses Préparatoires aux Grandes Ecoles, Classes Préparatoires aux Grandes Ecoles at Lycée Louis Le Grand
French, English, German, Spanish
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Github Skills (37)
spec10
javascript10
testing10
css10
mdc10
mdns10
webxr10
api-documentation10
webidl10
web-audio-api10
respec10
sched10
mdt10
web-standards10
specification10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
immersive-web/webxr
Jun 2016 - Jun 2022
Repository for the WebXR Device API Specification.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 11 PRs, 2 pushes in 6 years
Contributions summary:Dominique primarily focused on updating the HTML and WebIDL files within the WebXR Device API specification repository. Their contributions involved modifying the generated HTML to reflect the latest changes, including updates to the document's metadata, structure, and interface definitions. Furthermore, the user addressed code-related issues by refining the WebIDL definitions and improving code readability and maintainability.
apivirtual-realityspecificationaugmented-realityapi-specification
speced/respec
Jun 2012 - Dec 2022
A tool for creating technical documents and web standards
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:31 reviews, 111 commits, 81 PRs in 10 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Dominique primarily contributed to the Respec tool, focusing on WebIDL support and enhancements. Their contributions included adding support for serializer syntax, maplike, and other constructs in WebIDL. They also worked on fixing bugs related to IDL parsing and display, and updating documentation references, demonstrating a focus on improving the tool's functionality and compliance with web standards.
legaltechjavascriptrespecccpapre-processor
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