Jake Archibald
Web Developer Relations Lead
Haywards Heath, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarJake Archibald is a seasoned web platform engineer and developer-relations leader with 16 years of experience shaping browser APIs, developer tools, and UX for modern web apps. Currently leading Web Developer Relations at Mozilla and a developer advocate at Google, he bridges deep standards work (WHATWG/W3C contributions like Fetch, ServiceWorker, DOM AbortController and CSS easing) with hands-on product engineering. His open-source portfolio includes widely used projects and demos—svgomg, Squoosh, idb/idb-keyval and sprite-cow—demonstrating expertise in performance, offline-first apps, and client-side storage. He’s equally comfortable refactoring core libraries (es6-promise) and authoring specs and tests (web-platform-tests) that shape real browser behavior. Known for pragmatic, developer-focused improvements, he often surfaces subtle UX and tooling wins like sourcemap and build optimizations that materially improve maintainability. Based in Haywards Heath, England, he combines standards influence with practical shipping experience across front-end and full-stack projects.
16 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
14,215reputation
1.8mreached
64answers
6questions
browser
top-5%
webkit
top-5%
mobile-safari
top-5%
animation
top-5%
fetch-api
top-5%
curl
top-1%
Github Skills (65)
expressjs10
testing10
http10
websocket10
indexeddb10
browserify10
fetch-api10
javascript10
es6-promise10
service-worker10
front-end-development10
html10
typescripts10
test-automation10
key-value-store10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
jakearchibald/idb-keyval
Aug 2016 - Jun 2022
A super-simple-small promise-based keyval store implemented with IndexedDB
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 89 commits, 44 PRs in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Jake primarily focused on improving and expanding the functionality of a key-value store implemented with IndexedDB. They implemented several features, including the ability to delete keys, add a keys method to retrieve existing keys, and optimize the codebase for better compression. Their contributions also included refactoring code and performing version bumps to reflect these changes. The user worked primarily with JavaScript and IndexedDB.
indexeddb
jakearchibald/wittr
Aug 2015 - Nov 2017
Silly demo app for an online course
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:146 commits, 13 PRs, 1618 pushes in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jake focused on building out a web application, starting with basic server setup and moving to more complex features. They implemented the front-end using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and integrated it with a back-end server using Node.js and Express.js. The user also added a service worker for offline support, used Handlebars for templating, and implemented websocket updates.
demo-apponline-course
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