Floriel _
Software Engineer -- YouTube at Google
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolFloriel is a software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building features for YouTube at Google after contributing to Google Shopping and major products at Amazon. He is a full‑stack practitioner comfortable across JavaScript frameworks (React, Vue), Node.js, and backend work in .NET Core and Kotlin/Swift for SDKs, with a track record shipping front-end and platform improvements at scale. As founder of the open-source Full Human organization he created PurgeCSS, a widely used tool with 100k+ downloads, and has modernized notable projects like purifycss and contributed tests and fixes to high-profile repos such as Airbnb’s visx and TradingView’s charts. Colleagues know him for pragmatic refactors, improving test coverage, and shipping user-facing features like Prime Video payment flows and chart quick-tracking, showing an unusual blend of product-focused engineering and long-term OSS stewardship.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science - Software Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Science - Software Engineering at Institut supérieur d'électronique et du numérique
French, English, German
Stackoverflow
468reputation
28kreached
10answers
2questions
Github Skills (28)
data-visualizations10
javascript10
canvas10
testing10
css10
typescript10
s610
data-visualisation10
charting10
rollupjs10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
nodejs10
data-visualization10
typescripts10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
FullHuman/purgecss
Jul 2017 - Dec 2022
Remove unused CSS
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:27 releases, 346 reviews, 834 commits in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Floriel was responsible for creating the initial source code for a CSS removal tool called PurgeCSS. They implemented the core logic for the tool, including extracting selectors from content files and removing unused CSS rules. Furthermore, they developed the initial structure of the project, including the creation of essential files and configuration, demonstrating a focus on the fundamental features and structure of the CSS optimization tool. They also set up the basic project configuration.
webpack-pluginpurgecssunusedcssrollup-plugin
purifycss/purifycss
Apr 2017 - Jun 2017
Remove unused CSS. Also works with single-page apps.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 6 PRs, 18 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Floriel primarily modernized and refactored existing JavaScript code within the `purifycss` project, updating it to ES6 standards. They modified core utility files, including `FileUtil`, `ExtractWordsUtil`, and `PrintUtil`, and also updated the primary `purifycss.js` file. Furthermore, the user set up a Rollup build process, targeting ES module and CommonJS formats. They also replaced testing frameworks, switching from Mocha and Chai to Jest, and updated the test suite.
single-page-appsunusedminifycssinline-css
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