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
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webkit
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mobile-safari
top-5%
animation
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fetch-api
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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 (22)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleChromeLabs/squoosh
May 2018 - Jan 2023
Make images smaller using best-in-class codecs, right in the browser.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:150 reviews, 422 commits, 345 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Jake primarily focused on developing the user interface for the Squoosh image compression tool. Their contributions included implementing and styling UI components with Preact, integrating new UI elements, such as a paste button and a copy to side button, and refactoring and reorganizing the UI. Additionally, the user also contributed to the responsiveness of the UI, ensuring optimal display across various devices, including mobile.
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jakearchibald/sprite-cow
Jun 2011 - Jun 2018
Sprite Cow helps you get the background-position, width and height of sprites within a spritesheet as a nice bit of copyable css.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:56 commits, 4 pushes, 10 comments in 7 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Jake primarily contributed to the front-end development of the `sprite-cow` project. Their work included addressing bugs related to browser compatibility, like text-shadow issues and selection bugs within the canvas element. The user also implemented new features such as adding a tutorial sprite and incorporating responsive design elements to improve user experience across different screen sizes. Furthermore, they focused on front-end improvements by adding functionality like the scale for retina displays feature.
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